NFL Quarterback Power Rankings 2020: Patrick Mahomes is head of the class

General manager Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy could get booted out of Chicago at the end of the 2020 season. The duo collaborated to trade up one spot and take Mitchell Trubisky with the second overall pick in 2017. In the process, Chicago infamously passed on Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson.

Trubisky went to school at North Carolina, where he made a name for himself as a one-year starter in 2016. He completed 68.0 percent of his pass attempts for 3,748 yards, 30 touchdowns, and six interceptions. Chicago mistakenly lept at the chance to claim his as their franchise quarterback months after the college season ended.

Trubisky is entering his fourth and likely final year with the Bears, considering the team declined his fifth-year rookie option. The move comes as no surprise. Last season, Trubisky went through spurts where he couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. When things went wrong, Trubisky asked for the TVs to be turned off at Chicago’s facilities because of the criticism sports analysts  continuously made of him at the team.

The TV quote got taken slightly out of context, but it played into the larger narrative of Trubisky getting rattled on and off of the football field. When the spotlight came his way, the former Tar Heel shrank. While Trubisky should start the 2020 season, we could see Nick Foles before Week 4. There’s even a chance the former Super Bowl MVP beats Trubisky in an open quarterback competition in training camp.