
INDIANAPOLIS — A few days before last year’s draft, general manager Ryan Poles brought a special guest into the Bears’ high-tech Halas Hall draft room: Justin Fields. The quarterback watched as the front office mocked out what it thought would happen and gamed out what exactly they’d do with their two second-round draft picks.
Poles wanted Fields to be able to understand why the Bears would make a move — or why they wouldn’t — rather than hear the speculation from the outside world.