{"id":116282,"date":"2024-05-03T04:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=116282"},"modified":"2024-05-03T04:06:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:06:46","slug":"trade-pitch-lands-bears-former-no-3-pick-as-backup-to-caleb-williams-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/trade-pitch-lands-bears-former-no-3-pick-as-backup-to-caleb-williams-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Pitch Lands Bears Former No. 3 Pick as Backup to Caleb Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2043735235-e1713965792104.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Caleb Williams\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"169\" data-img-load-time=\"497\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty\u00a0Caleb Williams set Bears Nation on fire a few days ahead of the 2024 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Chicago Bears\u00a0are potentially in the market for a backup quarterback, and finding one with skills that mirror those of No. 1 overall pick\u00a0Caleb Williams\u00a0in at least one or two important ways makes sense from a continuity standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago could try and create such an opportunity by making an inquiry with the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys, who have officially decided not to exercise the fifth-year option on QB\u00a0Trey Lance\u2019s\u00a0rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat decision was essentially made in August when the Cowboys acquired Lance from the\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0for a 2024 fourth-round pick,\u201d\u00a0Todd Archer of ESPN reported on Wednesday, May 1. \u201cHad the Cowboys picked up the option, it would have cost\u00a0$22.4 million, been fully guaranteed and been at odds with the club\u2019s stated preference of keeping\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0after 2024. As it stands, the Cowboys do not have a quarterback on their roster signed beyond this season, with Prescott, Lance and\u00a0Cooper Rush\u00a0set to hit unrestricted free agency in March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trade price for Lance wouldn\u2019t likely cost more than the fourth-round pick Dallas sent to San Francisco for the QB last summer, considering he hasn\u2019t played since then.<\/p>\n<p>A late-round selection, perhaps somewhere on Day 3, would potentially be worth the price to the Bears to bring in a talented young backup behind Williams. As of Thursday, Chicago owned the rights to\u00a0eight picks in the 2025 draft, including three in the sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>Current quarterbacks on the Bears\u2019 roster behind Williams include\u00a0Tyson Bagent\u00a0and\u00a0Brett Rypien, who are a combined 4-4 as starters in the NFL across five total seasons between them. Chicago also signed quarterback\u00a0Austin Reed,\u00a0formerly of Western Kentucky, as an undrafted free agent earlier this week.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Trey Lance Still Has Value After Injury Derailed Career in 2022<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5010923\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1711929300-e1714698114667.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Trey Lance\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5010923\" data-lazy-load=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1711929300-e1714698114667.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5010923\">GettyFormer Dallas Cowboys quarterback Trey Lance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the Cowboys and Prescott do end up reaching a long-term agreement, Lance\u2019s presence in Dallas feels superfluous.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-year QB has dealt with unfortunate timing and a lack of true opportunities throughout his career, and figures to seek a chance to prove himself\/compete for a starting job somewhere when he hits free agency in 2025. As such, the Cowboys may be willing to entertain the right kind of trade offer for Lance this summer so as to get something in return for a player who is still an asset based on his age (he turns just 24 years old later this month) and untapped potential.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers\u00a0traded three first-round picks and a third-rounder\u00a0to the\u00a0Miami Dolphins\u00a0to move up in the 2021 draft from No. 12 and select Lance 3rd overall. He played in just eight games for San Francisco, starting four of those (2-2) and amassing 797 passing yards, 5 TDs and 3 INTs. He also rushed the ball 54 times for 235 yards and a score, per\u00a0Pro Football Reference.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers brought Lance along slowly during his rookie year, most of which he played behind starter\u00a0Jimmy Garoppolo. The team bumped Lance into a starting role in 2022, though he suffered a devastating lower-leg injury in Week 2 that knocked him out for the rest of the year. Former seventh-round pick\u00a0Brock Purdy\u00a0eventually stepped in and two deep playoff runs later, Lance was out of the Bay Area and looking for a fresh start in Dallas.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Trey Lance Battled Limited Playing Time for Variety of Reasons Over Several Years<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4992902\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1612517351-e1713888260181.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Trey Lance\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4992902\" data-lazy-load=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1612517351-e1713888260181.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4992902\">GettyFormer San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lance doesn\u2019t have the arm talent that Williams does, nor did he have the same collegiate experience or accolades coming into the NFL \u2014 Williams won the Heisman Trophy in 2022, while Lance threw just\u00a0318 passes\u00a0across his tenure at North Dakota State University (Carson Wentz\u2019s\u00a0alma mater), which the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Lance is a skilled playmaker who can use his legs to his advantage, much like Williams. And while Williams is adept at making creative plays on the fly after the initial call breaks down, draft analysts lauded Lance for his pre-snap football IQ coming into the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a rare dual-threat quarterback in that he\u2019s tasked with setting his own protections and reading the full field,\u201d\u00a0Lance Zierlein of NFL.com wrote in 2021. \u201cCoaches rave about his football IQ and film work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is truly no telling what Lance\u2019s career might look like if he\u2019d never gone down with injury. His teams haven\u2019t afforded Lance the chance to take a snap in nearly three full years, largely because Purdy and Prescott have pinned him lower on the depth chart. Both of those quarterbacks contended for the MVP of the league in 2023, before\u00a0Lamar Jackson\u00a0of the\u00a0Baltimore Ravens\u00a0ultimately won the award for the second time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Caleb Williams set Bears Nation on fire a few days ahead of the 2024 NFL draft. The\u00a0Chicago Bears\u00a0are potentially in the market for a backup quarterback, and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":116284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116285,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116282\/revisions\/116285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}