Who was the worse pick between Mitch Trubisky and Trey Lance?

[Po pimp]

Bears traded up from the #3 pick to #2 to grab Trubisky.

49ers traded up from the #12 pick to #3 to grab Lance.

49ers gave up a lot more to get Lance, and Mitch has had more success in the NFL (albeit he has had more opportunities to play). Trey has only played like 4 games due to injury and he’s still a project. Both are backups as of now. Also, it’s hard to ignore that the Bears traded up for Trubisky when Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson were still on the board.

 

[KidJSoul]

Great question

Low key it might be Mitch just because the 49ers have still been super bowl contenders despite Lance not working out

With how Mahomes and even Watson have turned out, if Fields ends up being a bust, the Bears getting Trubisky may end up being a devastating move for the foreseeable future

 

[tremonthustler1]

Niners passed up a lot more talent to get Lance so it looks worse. That trade looks so bad that it makes the Jets look dumber for turning it down.


The Trubisky trade up was dumber because not only did they pass up better QB's (really Watson because Mahomes was never going that high), they didn't have to make the trade at all. They really gave up extra shyt because they afraid a dumber team would leapfrog them for Trubisky. Wondering how the Niners could pass up Mahomes is like wondering how Giannis didn't go first in his draft. It was pretty clear why.

 

[jwinfield]

Bears traded a first, two thirds and a fourth for their mistake. Trubisky at least played for us and made a pro bowl as an alternate.

Niners traded three first round picks for a guy that played eight games before being traded for a fourth.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Looking at only the QBs, I’d say Mitch. Looking at overall talent, I’d say Niners. I think Micah was taken at the spot they traded out from.

 

[Rakpo98]

Bears traded up from the #3 pick to #2 to grab Trubisky.

49ers traded up from the #12 pick to #3 to grab Lance.

49ers gave up more to get Lance, and Mitch has had more success in the NFL. However, Mitch has had more opportunities to play than Lance and we pretty much know what he is. Trey has been injured and he’s still a project. Both are backups as of now. Also, it’s hard to ignore that the Bears traded up for Trubisky when Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson were still on the board.

Given that Trubisky was selected before Watson & Mahommes, I was tempted to go with the Trubisky trade, but keep in mind that Trubisky in his first season led the Bears to a 12-4 record & a playoff berth. If it wasn’t for their kicker at the end of the game, they would’ve gone to the divisional round. Trubisky also has a pro bowl appearance in his career. Trey Lance might never start enough games to lead his team to the playoffs or get voted to a pro bowl, so I think the Lance trade is worse. By the way, compare the players the Dolphins got with those picks in the trade up for Lance, and it just emphasizes how lopsided that trade was in comparison to what Chicago traded up to get Trubisky.

 

[mikishere]

picks 4-13 after trey lance got picked should answer that question alone, then add in the other factors (trubisky playing meaningful games, trey playing next to none, etc) and it isn't even close.

 

[Po pimp]

Given that Trubisky was selected before Watson & Mahommes, I was tempted to go with the Trubisky trade, but keep in mind that Trubisky in his first season led the Bears to a 12-4 record & a playoff berth. If it wasn’t for their kicker at the end of the game, they would’ve gone to the divisional round. Trubisky also has a pro bowl appearance in his career. Trey Lance might never start enough games to lead his team to the playoffs or get voted to a pro bowl, so I think the Lance trade is worse. By the way, compare the players the Dolphins got with those picks in the trade up for Lance, and it just emphasizes how lopsided that trade was in comparison to what Chicago traded up to get Trubisky.

Wasn’t his first season. Also, the Bears having a 12-4 record had more to do with their defense (they traded for Khalil Mack the year they went 12-4). Mitch started 12 games his first season and went 4-8.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Mitch actually got some seasons to play before being bushed

Trey had 3 games and a quarter

Mitch easily

 

[tremonthustler1]

picks 4-13 after trey lance got picked should answer that question alone, then add in the other factors (trubisky playing meaningful games, trey playing next to none, etc) and it isn't even close.

What kinda saves Lance is this though:

Of the QB's selected, the only one that's even debatable that they coulda went after was Fields. None of the other QB's became so good that the Niners guessed horribly wrong on QB. Could they have drafted Parsons and kept their assets and been fine? Sure, but then Jimmy G woulda still been the QB and Niners fans couldn't live with that. Niners fans were so done with Jimmy that management woulda made that trade for Zack fukking Wilson. Watson on the Bears maybe changes everything, including Watson's life.

 

[Rakpo98]

Wasn’t his first season. Also, the Bears having a 12-4 record had more to do with their defense (they traded for Khalil Mack the year they went 12-4). Mitch started 12 games his first season and went 4-8.

Yes, the defense was holding it down for sure that year, but Mitch was a game manager who did what was asked of him. The reason I went with the Lance trade being worse, was because Lance is on a team with a better defense than that Bears team AND a better OL/WR/TE. The Niners are loaded everywhere, and Lance STILL couldn’t get the starter role after coming back from surgery. That should tell you something right there. Put Mitch Trubisky on this Niners team, and they are making the NFCCG or the SB. They definitely keep it close or beat the Eagles if Mitch was there.

 

[Po pimp]

Yes, the defense was holding it down for sure that year, but Mitch was a game manager who did what was asked of him. The reason I went with the Lance trade being worse, was because Lance is on a team with a better defense than that Bears team AND a better OL/WR/TE. The Niners are loaded everywhere, and Lance STILL couldn’t get the starter role after coming back from surgery. That should tell you something right there. Put Mitch Trubisky on this Niners team, and they are making the NFCCG or the SB. They definitely keep it close or beat the Eagles if Mitch was there.

I’m a Bears fan so I’m fully aware of that whole situation. As far as the 49ers, maybe a 49ers fan can speak on it, but I was under the impression that there was no way Purdy was losing his starting position after last season, so Lance coming back from injury was between him and Darnold for QB2. From what I’ve read on here, they were saying Darnold didn’t really do enough to cement himself as a QB2 and really separate himself from Trey. He only played 4 games in 2 seasons, so we really don’t know if he would’ve won games on that loaded team. He went 1-1 both years he played.

 

[Rakpo98]

I’m a Bears fan so I’m fully aware of that whole situation. As far as the 49ers, maybe a 49ers fan can speak on it, but I was under the impression that there was no way Purdy was losing his starting position after last season, so Lance coming back from injury was between him and Darnold for QB2. From what I’ve read on here, they were saying Darnold didn’t really do enough to cement himself as a QB2 and really separate himself from Trey. He only played 4 games in 2 seasons, so we really don’t know if he would’ve won games on that loaded team. He went 1-1 both years he played.

At the end of the day, when you give up all those assets to trade up for a QB, you tend to give them EVERY chance to prove to you and the skeptics in the NFL world that you made the right decision. The fact that they cut their losses after having Lance compete with Darnold should tell you something. Hell, the fact that they even signed Darnold, after we knew that Lance would be ready for the start of this season is disturbing enough. If Purdy wasn’t going to be ready for the season, they really might have rolled with Darnold as the starter, NOT Trey Lance. They know for a fact that Lance is not ready, and they cut their losses.

 

[FTBS]

Mitch. I am still tryna figure out what he did or what quality he possessed (aside from skin color of course) that made him worthy of that selection. And they coulda stayed at 3 and grabbed Jordan. Trey at least got potential and as good as the playera draftee after him are can you really justify trading 3 1sts for any of them?

 

[Rice N Beans]

Mitch was starting just last season. Lance probably wasn't going to even on the otherwise loaded 9ers despite being healthy. Watson was the preferred pick with Mitch, and Fields should been selected instead of Trey. Bears gave up a ton just for one slot up, 9ers gave up a ton to jump up quite a bit.

In terms of draft positioning, the Bears is the worse pick. As a whole, I'd say the 9ers had a worse QB scenario collapse. Neither QB had the playtime worthy of their draft numbers, IMO.