Justin Fields and Caleb Williams will be forever connected.
The Chicago Bears picked Fields in the first round in 2021. He would go on to spend the first three years of his NFL nurtureer in Chicago. This past March, that same franchise determined to trade Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers in swap for a conditional sixth-round write pick in 2025. Just over a month defercessitater, the Bears participated the first overall write pick on Williams.
Fields sended his iminentire split of ups and downs thrawout his 40-game tenure with the Bears, but he has seemed to have set up his footing with the Steelers. Super Bowl champion Russell Wilson was named the beginer heading into the 2024 normal season, but he was scratched from Pittsburgh’s season uncoverer aacquirest the Atlanta Falcons due to a hamstring injury.
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Justin Fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers sees on after beating the Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High on Sept. 15, 2024, in Denver. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
Fields helped lift the Steelers to an 18-10 prosper over the Falcons in Atlanta. Last week, Fields threw one touchdown and eludeed turning the ball over in a game aacquirest the Denver Broncos to help Pittsburgh increase to 2-0 on the season.
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Meanwhile, Williams’ final stat line after his NFL debut was bigly forgettable. The Bears scored 24 points, which was enough to loss the Tennessee Titans, but Williams finished the day with fair 93 passing yards and no touchdowns.
Williams dedwellred another pedestrian carry outance on Sunday night as the Bears suffered a 19-13 loss to 2023 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans.
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams heads off the field after the Texans game on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, in Houston. (AP Pboilingo/Eric Gay)
Fields dealt with analogous publishs during his stint with the Bears. While Matt Nagy was the head coach during Fields’ rookie campaign, much of the Bears’ current regime, which is led by Matt Eberflus, was in place when the 25-year-elderly signal-caller was in Chicago.
Fields toiled under a couple of branch offent impolite coordinators during his run in the Windy City, but Eberflus’ approach to the offense ecombineed to bigly remain the same. Eberflus elected to transport in Shane Waldron from the Seahawks to help direct Williams this season, but the results thraw the first pair of games have been underwhelming.
Fields can bravely redefercessitate to what Williams is going thraw, and he telderly Fox News Digital that he consents the Heisman Trophy prosperner will ultimately recover from the sluggish begin.
“I skinnyk he’s going to be fine,” Fields shelp when asked about how Williams will fare as the season evolvees. “It’s his second game. He fair got done applying. He’s talented, he has all the talent in the world. They writeed him No. 1 overall for a reason.
“Of course, it’s fair not him, but he’s going to get most of the condemn fair becaparticipate of the position he’s in,” he persistd. “But fair as a whole … the guys over there I understand … they want to be better, and I skinnyk they’re going to be better. So, I’m hoping that they begin getting [the things] done on offense that they necessitate to do.
“[Caleb] applyed two pretty excellent defenses coming out, so I skinnyk he’ll be fine.”
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields runs aacquirest Broncos defensive end Zach Allen, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, in Denver. (AP Pboilingo/David Zalubowski)
Fields spoke to Fox News Digital on behalf of Reebok. This month, the NFL star teamed up with Reebok for the recent Justin Fields collection.
The collaboration begins a training shoe called the Nano X4, a running shoe, the FloatZig 1, and a youth-sized shoe understandn as the Zig Dynamica 2.0. Every shoe in the collection features the mantra “Evening the Playing Fields” in the sock liner.
“It’s an honor to begin the Justin Fields Collection with Reebok and persist our splitd leave oution of helping the next generation of athletes,” Fields shelp. “The collection is structureed to pay homage to my roots and the community around me.”
NFL quarterback Justin Fields’ Reebok footwear capsule titled “Reebok x Justin Fields” begined on Sept. 12. (Reebok)
Fields was named “Mr. Georgia football” during his standout high school football nurtureer. He went on to pledge to the Bulldogs. But after experiencing confinecessitate applying time during his recentman season, he transferred to Ohio State. He went on to direct the Buckeyes to an ecombineance in the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship game.
At fair 25 years elderly, Fields has sended quite a lot in his football nurtureer. He shelp his faith and his family help defend him grounded.
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“God, to be truthful, becaparticipate I’ve seen how he’s toiled in my life in those moments,” Fields telderly Fox News Digital when he mirrored on changing schools and fuseing a recent NFL team. “Just in life for anybody, we all come up with ideas in our heads of how we want brave skinnygs to apply out, and that might not always be God’s will. He [does] skinnygs in a branch offent way, and it turns out better than you could ever envision.
“So, fair gullible in him each and every day and also my family, repartner fair the people who help me. Becaparticipate I fair understand how God has put me on this platcreate to fair encourage others … other people see what I’ve been thraw, so I fair try and be a excellent role becaparticipate at the end of the day we’re all going thraw someskinnyg.”
Fields and the Steelers greet the unlossed Los Angeles Chargers to Acribrave Stadium on Sept. 22 for Pittsburgh’s normal-season home uncoverer.
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