If the Bears find themselves next Sunday in Dallas facing a young quarterback with a chip on his shoulder toward them, they have only themselves to blame.
The Bears met with Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott at this year’s Senior Bowl. The meeting went well, but when the 2016 draft came around, the Bears eventually had three picks in the fourth round and used none of them on the young quarterback.
“I’m not really surprised at who did or didn’t take me in the whole draft process,” Prescott said via conference call on Wednesday. “I had a pretty good meeting with them at the Senior Bowl. We talked a lot of ‘ball, they got to know me, I liked their staff, the GM, owner, everybody.”
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But now he’s a Dallas Cowboy, a rookie starter by virtue of a back injury to Tony Romo, and the Bears do not have a young quarterback in their pipeline. Prescott wouldn’t mind making the Bears regret that they didn’t follow up on their meeting with him.
“Most definitely,” Prescott said. “I think anybody in the draft wanted to go higher than they went, except I guess the first two guys [Jared Goff to the Rams, Carson Wentz to the Eagles]. It’s just kind of competitive jealousy, wanting to go as high as I could, so to have to wait that long just allows that chip on my shoulder to grow.”