Ryan Poles and the Chicago Bears have made their decision on what they want to do with the No. 1 pick in this year’s NFL Draft.

The Bears officially traded Justin Fields away to the Pittsburgh Steelers on March 16 in a trade that many people expected to happen.

The Bears in return got a 2025 sixth-round pick that turns into a fourth-round pick if Fields plays 51% of his snaps this season, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Fields now becomes the backup for Pittsburgh playing behind veteran QB Russell Wilson.

This is a great situation for Fields as he now has an opportunity to fight for the starting job while also learning from a veteran quarterback who has started 12 seasons in the NFL and has won a super bowl with the Seahawks in 2014.

He also gets to be coached by a great head coach, Mike Tomlin, who has been the coach for the Steelers since 2007 and has also won a super bowl in his career. Fields will definitely have some good mentorship at his new team.

So what does this mean for the Bears now? The Bears will likely stay at pick one and select the QB of their choice unless they for some odd reason trade down from one if they think their guy could fall past some teams, but I doubt that will happen.

Thankfully for the Bears, this year’s QB draft class is one of the better ones we’ve seen in the past years, led by 2022 Heisman winner Caleb Williams from USC.

Williams should be the No. 1 pick as many draft analysts say he is the best QB draft prospect since Andrew Luck, and he even draws in comparisons to Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers.

The other two possible options for the Bears at No. 1 are North Carolina QB Drake Maye who draws comparison to Justin Herbert with his great size and similar play style.

The other option is LSU QB Jayden Daniels, who is the oldest of the three and who just won the Heisman this year after a great senior year with LSU.

A dark horse candidate for the Bears would be to draft Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy, Oregon QB Bo Nix, or even Washington QB Michael Penix, but those players are a longshot and likely will not happen.

Regardless of which QB the Bears pick at No. 1, that QB will be going into a great situation having great weapons to throw to such as DJ Moore, newly acquired Keenan Allen, Cole Kmet, and even new running back D’Andre Swift to help in the run game. And even adding in a young emerging defense along with whoever they select with the ninth pick into the mix, the situation for the Bears’ new QB will definitely be a great one to start a career in.