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Justin Fields Not More Popular than Tim Tebow

Justin Fields has a commanding spot among the top five overall in NFL jersey sales but new Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Tim Tebow has control of the top spots.

Gene Chamberlain

Justin Fields Not More Popular than Tim Tebow
Justin Fields Not More Popular than Tim Tebow /

Perhaps it shows how trendy and fickle football fans can be, but it also reveals how truly starved for a quarterback Chicago is.

The top five NFL jerseys being sold at the moment are not even the numbers worn by players who were in the top five for sales last year in the NFL. In fact, there are only two players among those top five for jersey sales, and three of the jerseys are Bears Justin Fields No. 1, according to Fox Sports.

Fields' navy home No. 1 Bears jersey rates No. 3 overall in sales. His orange Bears jersey is No. 4 overall and his white jersey is No. 5.

The top two jerseys are both Tim Tebow No. 85 in Jaguars teal (No. 1) and black (No. 2). Adam Schefter of ESPN reported last week the top five selling items overall on the NFL.com NFL shop were all Tim Tebow items.

The rankings involving Tebow and Fields are all post-draft numbers.

OFFICIAL TOP 50 in JERSEY SALES THROUGH SUPER BOWL

According to the NFLPA, Tom Brady led the NFL in sales for the 2021 season in standings through the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes was second and Lamar Jackson third. 

Tua Tagovailoa was fourth and Aaron Rodgers fifth. The rest of the top 10 was Joe Burrow No. 6, Russell Wilson No. 7, George Kittle No. 8, Josh Allen No. 9 and Ezekiel Elliott No. 10.

The highest ranking Bear on last year's list was Khalil Mack's No. 52 jersey at No. 33 overall.

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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.

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