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The interesting piece is the difference in backups with Fields and Minshew. From a rating perspective, I have them rated very similar — and maybe that's doing a disservice to Fields, but he's never lived up to the potential some people thought he had out of Ohio State. Backing up Mahomes could be the best thing ever to happen to Fields.
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Fields backs up Mahomes; oddsmakers see backup role as potential opportunity.

Fields is Patrick Mahomes' backup for the Chiefs; one oddsmaker noted that Fields and Gardner Minshew are rated very similarly from a rating perspective, and suggested that backing up Mahomes could be the best thing to happen to Fields, who has never lived up to the potential expected from his Ohio State pedigree.

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