Nick Edward Foles is an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He played college football at Arizona and was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft.
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Chicago bears:
Fields suffered an ankle injury during Monday’s 17-9 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Dalton has been dealing with a groin injury that flared up after he returned this week from the COVID-19 list.
Foles, whom the Bears acquired last season to compete with former starter Mitch Trubisky, has not played this season. Fields finished Monday night’s game and was a limited participant in practice Wednesday, but he did not practice Thursday or Friday.
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Fields, the Bears’ No. 1 draft choice last spring, missed two games earlier this season because of cracked ribs. In 12 games this season, he has completed 58.9% of his passes for 1,870 yards, seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
He has fumbled an NFL-high 12 times and has a 25.1 total quarterback rating, the second worst in the league among qualified quarterbacks.
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Nagy said the injury hasn’t gotten worse, but that the team is trying to gauge “where the pain level is” and did not rule out using Fields as Foles’ backup on Sunday. The Bears’ only other quarterback is rookie Ryan Willis, who signed to the practice squad Dec. 18.
“We have to balance where we’re at with what Ryan could do just getting here recently,” Nagy said.
Foles was named MVP of Super Bowl 52 when he led the Eagles over Brady’s Patriots, 41-33, in Minneapolis on Feb. 4, 2018.
Fast forward to “Thursday Night Football” to open Week 5 of the 2020 NFL season, and in an unlikely event, Foles and Brady are starting counterparts for the first time since that meeting.
