Humboldt Park musician Scott Morrow was hit by a stray bullet June 20.
Fields — with his fellow rookies and quarterbacks — will arrive to camp at Halas Hall on Saturday.
Those same fans made Fields’ navy jersey the NFL’s third-most popular, in terms of sales, in the month after the draft.
In 2017, Fields won the Elite 11 camp competition, a gathering of the nation’s top high school passers.
When he transferred after a year, he landed at Ohio State, one of the few programs in the nation whose fans can match the Bulldogs’ passion.
There’s no way to prepare Fields for the pressure awaiting him in Chicago — to be the franchise’s first elite passer since Sid Luckman, who last played in 1950; to be the first Bears player to throw for 4,000 yards in a season; and to win the team’s first playoff game in 11 years and first Super Bowl in 37.
The Bears have rushed to tamp down the expectations that were set into motion the minute they drafted Fields.