As the Bears begin their summertime split, the Sun-Times’ Patrick Finley answers their major concerns:

How did Andy Dalton glance this spring?

Serviceable on the industry and like a leader off of it. His mentoring of Fields — Dalton and his wife even took him to evening meal — is just as vital as Dalton’s efficiency all through spring procedures with small defensive resistance. Fields mentioned Dalton “has absolutely taken me less than his wing” and that “any concern I have for him, he’s likely to answer.”

What stunned me the most about Justin Fields in exercise was …

He’s greater, broader and quicker in person than you’d feel he’d be. There were some plays Thursday when that blend manufactured him search like a young Cam Newton. Fields’ deep ball is as marketed, far too, and delivers an ingredient to the Bears playbook they haven’t experienced in many years.

Matt Nagy’s quarterback program is …

What a mentor is meant to say in June. If Fields is plainly improved than Dalton in training camp, no a person will hold Nagy to the declaration he designed two months previously — not even the coach himself.

The Bears’ defensive starters no-showing OTAs was ….

Satisfactory, so prolonged as within linebacker Danny Trevathan and outside linebacker Robert Quinn do not replicate their awful starts to the 2020 period.

What is the Bears’ most important issue heading into camp?

Getting their gamers vaccinated. Outside the house of the clear wellbeing advantages to equally the