2020 NFL Draft: Best NFL fits for top QB prospects
player. 57. Pick Analysis. QB. Jalen Hurts. Hurts showing more NFL progression. Oklahoma. 1
Jalen’s top skills: Big arm, speed, athleticism, leadership, swagger
Jalen’s top weaknesses: Sample size of being a strong passer, win from the pocket?
Bears OC: Matt Nagy/Mark Helfrich
The Chicago Bears are unfortunately in the market for a quarterback with the ineptitude and clear regression of Mitch Trubisky, whose 2018 statistics were extremely misleading.
Trubisky had one year of starting experience at North Carolina before the Bears picked him second overall over the likes of Patrick Mahomes and DeShaun Watson, and Chicago’s not about to let their exceptional defense go to waste because of Trubisky’s incompetence out there.
Jalen Hurts’ stock is rising to the point that it’s fair to wonder if he will even be on the board when the Chicago Bears finally are on the clock in round two of the 2020 NFL Draft.
After spending three years at Alabama showing off his skills, mostly as a runner, Hurts put on a passing display unlike anything we’d seen from him in his final couple of months with the Crimson Tide and has carried that momentum over into the 2019 season with Lincoln Riley’s Oklahoma Sooners.
The Sooners have had two straight Heisman winners and two straight top overall picks. It’s a little out there to think Hurts is going to follow in the top pick footsteps, but it would surprise no one if he was the Heisman winner and he’s showing off an ability to make big-time NFL-caliber throws, move around in the pocket, win with his arm, and still do what he does with his feet.
Lamar Jackson is showing what a creative offensive coordinator in the NFL can do with a stud dual-threat QB, and I think Matt Nagy could see similar possibilities with Hurts.