It’s common knowledge at this point that Vegas oddsmakers threw Mitch Trubisky into the list of possible candidate to win Most Valuable Player in 2019. That may seem absurd to some, but anything is possible. Nobody expected Patrick Mahomes to win it last year. Things can happen. It’s a matter of the right conditions being met. So that begs the big question.
What would Trubisky have to do in order to receive consideration?
Being a quarterback is the first requirement. Voters may be annoyed by saying that but it’s the truth. Other positions don’t win it anymore. It has become the best quarterback award. Aside from that, there are two boxes that need checking. The team must at least make the playoffs and the player must put up considerable numbers to help prove they were the primary reason for that success.
Hence the “most valuable” part.
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The winning part is hard to project since the season won’t come for months. However, it might be possible to at least get an idea of the statistics Trubisky might need to post in order to get into that conversation. So I look back over the past 10 years at every quarterback who won the award. Then I averaged their numbers in passing yards, touchdowns, and interceptions to get an idea of that ballpark.
Suffice to say it would be a season far beyond any a Bears quarterback has ever had.
Mitch Trubisky would have to rewrite the Bears record book
The numbers are as follows. Trubisky would have to throw for 4,595 yards, 40.22 touchdowns, and 8.66 interceptions to have a legitimate shot at the award. Bears fans who just went into a coughing fit understand the reality. Those sort of stats is something a Chicago quarterback has never even sniffed. Nevermind flirted with.
Care for an idea? To date, no Bears QB has thrown for 4,000 yards or 30 touchdowns in a season. Ever. That’s in 100 years of this franchise existing. Hell, it took over 50 years for the franchise record for TD passes set by Sid Luckman (28) to be broken. Erik Kramer threw 29 in 1995. He also grabbed the record for yardage as well at 3,838.
So Trubisky would not only have to be the first Bears quarterback to throw for 30 touchdowns, but he’d also have to be the first to throw for 40. In the same season. Not to mention having to throw for over 700 yards more than the current team record. It would truly be a year that broke the record books wide open.
There is no question he has the talent. It comes down to whether he has the poise, accuracy, and sharp decision-making necessary to play nearly flawless like that. The only way to know for sure is to watch the games play out.
