The quarterback curse has followed the Bears for the better part of their storied 100-year history. Aside from players like Sid Luckman and Jim McMahon, Chicago has seen some pretty rough quarterbacks.
While Mitchell Trubisky occupies that current spot for the Bears, as the former No. 2 overall pick continued to struggle in Year 3, there was a time when things were worse than Trubisky.
Believe it or not.
Remember a little someone named Mike Glennon? Glennon, who got $18.5 million guaranteed to be a decoy for Ryan Pace in his pursuit of Trubisky. Glennon, who started four games in 2017 before he was replaced by Trubisky.
Sporting News called Glennon the second worst free agent signing of the last 10 years, and it’s easy to see why.
Glennon struggled through the first four games of the 2017 season before he was benched in favor of the rookie (Trubisky.) Fortunately, Chicago structured Glennon’s contract in a way that allowed it to cut him with a dead cap charge of just $4.5 million, but that was after it paid him $16 million for his four starts, three of which resulted in losses.
On the bright side, Bears fans only had to endure Glennon for four games. That, and Chicago structured his deal in a way where it didn’t cost them a fortune to part ways with him the following offseason.
But Pace’s overspending on Glennon and subsequent trading up to select Trubisky made it one of the worst moves of Pace’s tenure in Chicago.
