The best landing spots for Cam Newton in 2020

Cam Newton has said he’s willing to accept the ideal backup role. Here are five such options.

Chicago Bears

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This is more a matter of quality than need. The Bears have Mitchell Trubisky, and they’ve already decided to decline his fifth-year option — which is entirely appropriate — and they inexplicably brought Nick Foles on board via trade from the Jaguars. At this point, if you were somehow able to Frankenstein Trubisky and Foles together, you might come up with one functional quarterback.

The Bears are all in on an “open competition” between Trubisky and Foles, which doesn’t augur well for Chicago’s receivers, or for head coach and offensive shot-caller Matt Nagy, who will have to find ways to put lipstick on this particular pig.

Not that the Bears would add even more drama to their quarterback room, but a healthy Newton would easily outpace either Trubisky or Foles at this point in time, and Nagy’s passing game is favorable enough to a talented quarterback to give this franchise the shot in the arm at this position it hasn’t really had since… well, Sid Luckman? It’s been a long drought, Bears fans.