It’s been a serious problem for decades. While other franchises have adapted to the reality of modern football, the Chicago Bears continue to lag behind. Why, oh why can’t this team successfully draft quarterbacks? It’s certainly not for lack of trying. Since the Super Bowl era began in 1966, the organization has selected 30 quarterbacks. Yet only one of them managed to make a single Pro Bowl.
This has forced them to live off the discarded remains of other teams or pay through the nose to get ones that are any good via trade. It hasn’t worked. Now the team is coming off its most abysmal season in years. A 3-13 debacle filled with rampant injuries and questions of whether this team will ever get the QB position right.
In order to answer that question, it’s important to understand where they’ve gone wrong. Plenty of mistakes have been made in the past, but there are two trends to their drafting that have stuck out the most. Suffice to say they clearly haven’t learned their lessons, and until they do good fortune isn’t likely to come.
