The quarterback who lit up the Minnesota Vikings in their most recent NFC Championship game is joining the Vikings’ division.
Whether the purple faces Nick Foles in 2020 depends on how the Mitchell Trubisky deals with what is expected to be a battle for the strating job.
Via multiple reports, the Bears have acquired Foles from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for Chicago’s compensatory pick in the fourth round, which is No. 140 overall.
Foles took over for the injured MVP candidate Carson Wentz late in the 2017 season, then torched the Vikings in a 38-7 flogging in Philadelphia and outgunned Tom Brady in a 41-33 Super Bowl win over the Eagles. Wentz took back the reigns in 2018, with Foles again filling in during Wentz’s injury time.
In 2019, the Jaguars signed Foles a 4-year, $88 million free agent deal, but his stay in Jacksonville was short.
Foles broke his collerbone in the first half of his first official game with the team and needed surgery; the Jaguars turned to then-rookie Gardner Minshew, and quickly showed that he was a capable starter.
With Foles now traded, Jacksonville is presumably handing the reins of the offense to Minshew.
It’s been long reported that the Bears were looking for a veteran to at minimum push Trubisky, the No. 2 pick in 2017 who has mostly been a disappointment to this point.
Chicago head coach Matt Nagy worked with Foles twice previously: he was an offensive assistant with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2012, and the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator in 2016 when Foles was there. Current Bears offensive coordinator Bill Lazor was the Eagles’ quarterbacks coach in ‘13, when Foles made his one Pro Bowl appearance.
