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Poor play isn't enough for the Chicago Bears to give up on Mitchell Trubisky. Despite showing stark regression from year three to year two, Chicago has “serious confidence” in their 2017 No. 2 overall selection, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.
In Week 11's loss to the Los Angeles Rams, Chicago failed to trot out Trubisky in the crucial moments of the game. They did not do so due to poor performance, however, as the team listed a hip injury as the reason for his benching for Chase Daniel. Trubisky should be good to go for the Bears' Week 12 bout with the New York Giants.
Bears head coach Matt Nagy said, on Thursday, that Trubisky has recovered surprisingly quickly from the injury. Via Jeff Dickerson of ESPN:
“[W]hen he’s in that much pain at the end of a game [like he was] last week, you never really know what will happen over the next couple of days. It doesn’t surprise me that he’s going to rehab, work hard and do everything he can to get that pain level down so he can play. That’s what we feel good about right now.”
On the year, Trubisky has thrown for 1,580 yards, nine touchdowns, and four interceptions on a 62.4% completion rate.
Trubisky, out of 33 qualifying quarterbacks, is last in yards per pass (5.6), yards per game (175.6), 26th in passer rating (82.2) and 23rd in completion percentage (62.4), per Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times. Only Mason Rudolph averages fewer yards beyond the line of scrimmage on his completions (4.7).
While the Bears may still have confidence in Trubisky, they may not when the time to decide on his fifth-year option strikes in the offseason.
