No chance in hell the Bears are going to trade Fields.
You're right, but the way you said it makes it sound like it's because the Bears wouldn't want to trade him.
"No chance in Hell I'd trade houses and investment portfolios with Jeff Bezos!"
What team would give up even a seventh-round pick at this point for a QB who has two years of non-production in the NFL? His career completion percentage of 59.7% would have looked good in 1975, but in his best year, 2022, he had the 31st-best completion percentage in the league at 60.4%, just behind Russell Wilson's disaster of a season and ahead only of Baker Mayfield and Zach Wilson among QBs who had enough attempts to qualify as starters.
By ANY/A, a better measure of how valuable Fields's passing was (because it takes into account a lot more than just completion percentage), he was the absolute worst starter in the league in 2022, 34th in a league with 32 teams.
By DYAR, a measure of overall value contributed, Fields was the absolute worst starter in the league in 2022. By DVOA, a measure of his rate of production, he was also the absolute worst in the league in 2022, 34th in a league with 32 teams.
And Fields was
much worse than the next-worst QB in DYAR and DVOA, which was the rotting carcass of Matt Ryan.
This total anti-production by Fields was in his second season as a pro, and he was noticeably worse in DVOA and DYAR in 2022 than in his rookie season (which suggests Fields's suckitude in 2022 is not entirely Pace's fault). I'm not ready to say Fields is a complete bust, but let's just say the cat is playing on the roof. If it's any consolation, the teams that picked QBs ahead of the Bears in 2021, the Jets and 49ers, managed to do perceptibly worse than the Bears in terms of the ratio of on-the-field value to draft capital spent. While Fields utterly sucked in 2022, Lance barely even played (and sucked when he did), and even though Zach Wilson sucked less than Fields in 2022, Wilson sucked a lot more than Fields in 2021, and both Lance and Wilson were picked with top-five picks while the Bears' wasted 2021 first-round pick was "only" #11.
If any team were to offer anything at all for Fields, even the absolute last pick in the 2024 draft, the Bears would be wise to at least consider it. On the other hand, because of the dead money (those fully guaranteed four-year first-round contracts can be killers!), the Bears would actually have a little
less cap space if they traded Fields before June 1 than if they kept him, so maybe their best option is to keep Fields around for the moment for a QB competition with a newly-drafted player. And if some team gets desperate after June 1 and offers anything at all for Fields (say a seventh-round 2024 or 2025 pick, or a relatively inexpensive but broken-down veteran WR who wants to keep playing or something), well then the Bears can actually save over $2.375M of 2023 cap space by trading Fields.
Fields could in fact be a victim of circumstance, not given a fair chance to succeed, but halfway through his rookie contract, he hasn't shown signs of becoming a good NFL starter. Maybe he will break out and be an average-ish QB in 2023 (remember, that would be a massive breakout for a player whose first two years were as bad as Fields's), but the question for Bears management is if they're willing to bet on that or something even less likely, like Fields becoming a very good NFL quarterback, happening.