Chicago Bears NFL 2015 Roster News, Rumors: Jay Cutler Must Win the Starting QB Position With Bears
Jay Cutler is under contract for the Chicago Bears. The Bears signed him to a massive contract extension not that long ago. Cutler is due to make $15 million guaranteed in 2015 and $10 million dollars in 2016. That is the likely the biggest reasons he remains on a team that has hired a new head coach and is getting ready to rebuild itself.
Even with all of that money invested in him, new Bears head coach John Fox says Cutler has to win the starting job this summer at the team's training camp.
"It's all an open competition. Obviously you've got to start somewhere and my experience in football, really in anything, it's not where you start a competition; it's where you finish it," Fox told CSNchicago.com. "But we've got to start the race with some kind of lineup. We have not discussed that in depth. We have not presented it to our players yet. I kind of have it in my brain and then they compete."
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The Bears also have Jimmy Claussen and David Fales under contract. The former regime in Chicago benched Cutler last season in favor of Cutler when the team was struggling. While Fox has to find the best guy for the job, the reality here is Fox is stuck with Cutler. His contract is two big to unload and for the time being he has to find a way to make the team better with Cutler on the roster.
2014 was not a very good year for the Bears. There were many reports that there were rifts in the locker room and it got so bad that the head coach and large portions of the front office were replaced. While Cutler's 2014 stat line looks to be ok, Cutler did lead the NFL in interceptions.
