ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky has huge expectations for Justin Fields this fall, saying Monday morning that the Chicago Bears quarterback will probably be “in the MVP conversation.”
Orlovsky — a former NFL quarterback himself — opined that Fields might take an analogous sort of leap that Buffalo Bills star Josh Allen took within the second a part of this second season.
During the 2019 marketing campaign (Allen’s first full season as a starter), he upped his numbers throughout the board in completion share (58.8%), passing yards (3,089), passing touchdowns (20) and quarterback score (85.3), to go together with a career-low 9 interceptions.
Allen then had his finest 12 months so far in 2020, recording career-bests in completion share (69.2%), passing yards (4,544), passing touchdowns (37) and quarterback score (107.2) — towards simply 10 interceptions — to complete because the MVP runner-up.
Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow and others determine to pack the highest of the NFL MVP race through the 2023 season, but when Fields can construct off of how he completed 2022, he might put his identify within the combine.
The 2021 eleventh general decide began slowly in his second NFL season however picked it up massive time in his remaining seven video games from Weeks 9 via 17. In that remaining stretch, Fields had 10 landing passes and 5 interceptions, with a pair of contests with quarterback rankings of over 100 (and 4 over 90).
Fields additionally had three video games with no less than 130 speeding yards, had 5 of his eight speeding touchdowns throughout his final seven video games of the marketing campaign and set an NFL common season single-game report for speeding yards by a quarterback (178) in Week 9.
His general speeding numbers throughout 15 video games included 160 carries for 1,143 speeding yards and eight scores, as he turned simply the third quarterback in league historical past to run for over 1,000 yards.
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