Lake Forest, ill. – The return of Mitchell Trubisky to Halas Hall came largely without fanfare. The former quarter -back of Chicago Bears – now Buffalo Bills Backup – entered joint practices between the teams last week in the fortune changing rooms of the Walter Payton Center, where he had done a lot of work.
Trubisky has gone through quarter-back exercises and shared representatives of the second team with colleagues on the backup of QB Mike White invoices, launching touched passes and some incompletions. Memories have returned, as well as feelings of nostalgia. Before and after training, Trubisky welcomed former teammates and staff members of his time in Chicago. He also answered questions from local media.
Choice n ° 2 in 2017 is entering its ninth NFL season, in competition for the role of safeguard behind the MVP reigning Josh Allen. The posters around the Bears training camp present the last quarter of the first Taars round in Caleb Williams, which is under the same type of pressure as Trubisky was confronted in its second season in 2018. Despite the stress, Trubisky says that it wants time to have lasted longer.
“It is a privilege and I miss it, and it’s very fun to be the guy in the franchise, especially in a city like this,” said Trubisky after training. The return to the place where he was drafted, still playing in the league, is something he described as “exciting and scary at the same time”.
Trubisky’s goal is to be a quarter-Arrière leaving. Although his mandate does not work like the quarter of the Bears franchise, the return of Trubisky to Chicago for joint training and a pre-season match (8 p.m., Sunday, Fox) brings back happy memories and recalls what he always wants to accomplish in his career.
“It is difficult sometimes, I think, because you always want to stay in the moment and take it day after day, but, I mean, the long -term goal is certainly to be a starter and a franchise guy somewhere,” Trubisky told Espn. “I think that if you have this state of mind and you are trying to do this, but you take it one day both, everything else will take care of itself.”
There were positive points in Chicago. In 2018, the Bears went 12-4, won the NFC North and Trubisky launched 24 affected and 12 interceptions. Although the Bears are making the playoff series again in 2020, the team experienced consecutive seasons of 8-8 in 2019 and 2020, and in a difficulty attack, the Trubisky QBR went from 71 in 2018 to an average of 45.8 in the following two seasons.
Trubisky said that due to all the turnover in Chicago – two head coaches drawn since his departure in 2020 and two other first -round quarters written – there are only three players on the current Bears list with whom he played (the tight winger Cole Kmet, the Jaylon Johnson corner and the Botter Cairo Santos).
Trubisky, who became a free agent after the Bears refused his fifth year option, played his first visit with the Bills in 2021 as Allen backup. That year, Trubisky experienced an out-of-competition pre-season performance in Chicago, leading the offensive with four trips of touching in its first four possessions.
Trubisky, 30, then spent 2022 and 2023 with the Pittsburgh steelers, winning the camp departure in 2022, but finally becoming the backup of Kenny Pickett. Trubisky’s time there ended with what he called a “good mutual break”. Last off -season, he returned to Buffalo, signing a two -year agreement in a backup role.
Trubisky appreciated the camaraderie specific to Bills, which often spends time together far from the establishment, living near the other in Orchard Park, New York.
“I think it’s just the culture they built here,” said Trubisky. “The type of guy we bring to the team and families.”
Trubisky and White, who signed with the team before the regular season of 2024, then re-signed in January, fought for the role of save QB. The team generally keeps only one backup on the active list of 53 men. The QB group is made up of Allen, Trubisky, White and Shane Buechele, a former quarter of Kansas City who has been working in the bills since August 2023.
“If you entered [quarterback] Hall, you could not say if it was a training camp, we are in a battle, or if it was week 2 of last year, “White told ESPN.” It is such a pleasant room in which go. “”
At the start of the training camp, managing director Brandon Beane expressed a lot of support for Trubisky.
“We have a lot of confidence in Mitch. We really do,” said Beane. “I know people may mention Mike left [with the second-team offense]. In the end, we want as much competition as possible. We want to get as many people as possible, but at the same time, Mitch was two complete seasons here if you return to 2021. If Josh fell into a game, we were very confident last year. If he was going down now, we would be very confident in Mitch. “”
White and Trubisky get opportunities with the offense of the second team. Trubisky began the first pre-season match in 2025 against the New York Giants, finishing 9 out of 13 for 138 yards and 1 touchdown at the end of Dawson Knox.
Allen’s safeguard does not often play, because the reigning MVP has not missed a match since its recruit season.
“No matter the number of representatives I receive, I focus on making representatives that I receive the best possible so that I can continue and improve my game and continue to stay ready,” said Trubisky.
Trubisky said he focuses on his precision and ball placement. Allen and White noted the consistency of Trubisky.
“Mitch is, every day, he is the same exact guy,” said Allen. “He knows who he is. He is working extremely hard. He does everything he can right now to continue to improve. I love him and I like all quarters of our room.”
The Bills Connor McGovern center met Trubisky in 2014 during a visit to the campus at UNC before McGovern chose Penn State. McGovern said Trubisky sees the game differently from Allen, even receiving shots in a unique way, and that Trubisky gives him a little more control. Trubisky noted its increased comfort with the attack by coordinator Joe Brady and the line this season.
“”[Trubisky was here in 2021, so] He knows a lot of why for some of the things that were coherent before, a guy like Mike White and Shane [Buechele] Do not do, “said Brady.
“Mitch’s athletics is incredible in there. He has a big order. He has played a lot of significant football. … I love Mitch. I love his approach [of] How he does everything … and there is a reason why we obviously have it here. “”
Securing the safeguarding role is the next Trubisky step in its goal of being a starter again. Even going back to Chicago, Trubisky will remember “nostalgic good moments”, but the emphasis remains on football.
“”[It’s] Fun to go and have food, spend time with guys, take care of business, see old friends and interact a little with fans because, as I said, they were really nice to my family and me since I left, “said Trubisky.
“And I think that the dream is one day going back and taking my son to a game there and being like,” hey, it’s the first place where your father played “with all the other stadiums that we went. So, I think that having memories like that would be special.”
