Culpepper Bad Choice For Bears

The Bleacher Report is speculating the chance of the Chicago Bears signing Daunte Culpepper to increase their depth at quarterback.  Culpepper is a free agent who has played for both the Minnesota Vikings and the Oakland Raiders.  According the ESPN, Culpepper has a career completion record of 63.8%.

Although his career stats are much higher than Rex Grossman’s at 54.3%, Culpepper’s completion rate last season was 58.1%, which isn’t that far away from Grossman’s numbers.  He isn’t young either at 31 years old.  On top of that, he has proven to be injury prone.  Grossman also seems to have the injury thing covered for the Bears, so we don’t need another risky quarterback.  Lovie Smith and the Bears camp have also been adamant about continuing with their current roster.

Culpepper doesn’t seem like the right choice for the Bears no matter how it is framed.  He also didn’t take a $1 million, one year contract from the Green Bay packers.  It seems like a pretty steep price for an older, injury-prone backup quarterback.  The Bears can hold their own fine with the Grossman/Orton team they have had.  My guess is the Bears won’t bite on this offer.

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