Honest question, what is the potential negative repercussions of starting fields before he’s ready. Development of bad habits? Loss of confidence? I feel like on the job training would be more valuable than having him watch and learn from umm Andy Dalton. If he’s the best QB or at least has the highest ceiling I’m struggling to understand how we can “break him” by playing him too soon. But maybe I’m missing some obvious reasons why playing him too soon would be bad Every QB is different. You can have a Justin Herbert get thrown out there at last second notice and win Rookie of the Year or DeShone Kizer and Josh Rosen get thrown to the wolves on an awful team and lose all confidence right away. Or you can have Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes sit a year or two and become franchise guys. From what I've read from Bears beat guys, Fields hasn't really separated himself from Dalton much at all this camp and despite Dalton's poor play so far in preseason, he's still playing with no Robinson, Mooney, Montgomery, Kmet against #1 guys while the Bears are hiding Fields against #3's.