(BetMGM) Bears quarterback Justin Fields began his NFL career with two wins against the spread (ATS) in his first three starts.
His next 26 starts: 6-20.
Even with the 2-1 start — and a push in his 30th start — Fields had the fewest ATS wins of any NFL quarterbacks in their first 30 career starts since Jay Cutler also started 8-21-1 from 2006-'09.
Cutler somehow got worse. The Bears failed to cover in eight of his next nine starts, giving the former first-round pick only nine ATS wins in his first 39 career starts.
Fields is getting better … for now.
Since a push in Week 4 against the Denver Broncos dropped him to 8-21-1, Fields has four ATS wins in his last five starts. Most recently, the Bears demolished +3 in a 15-point win over the Detroit Lions this past Sunday for a three-game ATS winning streak.
It’s the first three-game ATS winning streak of Fields’ career and the first for the Bears since December 2020. It snapped the NFL’s longest active drought (47 games) without an ATS winning streak of at least three games.
On the NFL spreads as of Tuesday at BetMGM, the Bears are a 3-point road underdog against the Cleveland Browns this Sunday. Another cover would be their first ATS four-game streak since December 2018 and also the longest streak among all teams.
The Browns, meanwhile, just had a four-game ATS winning streak from Week 8 through Week 11. It was their first since September 2018.
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