Jaylon Johnson reveals how he digested the Justin Fields trade

Jaylon Johnson reveals how he digested the Justin Fields trade originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

Trading Justin Fields to the Steelers wasn’t an easy pill for anyone to swallow.

Not the fans, not the front office, not the coaches and definitely not the players. Cole Kmet, in speaking on the CHGO podcast, said he canceled his plans to go out on St. Patrick’s Day when he learned about the trade.

Jaylon Johnson started the digesting process before the trade even happened.

“I think it’s one thing to be surprised that it happened and then to wait for it to happen,” Johnson said. “I think it was more so a thing where it was waiting [for it to happen]. I think if you truly believe in a guy the speculation would’ve been shot down. I think, for me, that’s why I started kinda preparing for it. When the speculation and the questions weren’t shot down I was kinda like ‘Eh, they’re probably considering trading him.’

“For me, I was kinda preparing myself for the worst. Alright, let’s just already process Justin being traded. And then even just having that last little bit of hope was something that I held onto a little bit. But when you actually see it come across your page on ESPN and the ticker going off it’s like ‘Damn, my dog really isn’t gonna be with us no more.'”

The Bears traded Fields to the Steelers last Saturday in exchange for a conditional 2025 sixth-round pick. The pick could turn into a fourth-rounder, should Fields play at minimum 51% of snaps with the Steelers in 2024.

The little return the Bears earned back from the Steelers can’t make things easier. Initially, most thought the Bears could yield a second- or third-round pick for Fields. But, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Bears compromised their value to make sure Fields ended up in his preferred destination as quickly as possible.

Still, that doesn’t make things any easier for Johnson, who came into the league one year before Fields.

“It’s tough because he came in with me when I was young, my…

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Publish date : 2024-03-20 22:29:40

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