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New Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren says he has only one thing on his mind as he approaches his new assignment: building a new stadium.
The Bears plan to move out of Soldier Field and the city of Chicago and into a new stadium they will build in the suburbs, and today Warren called that project the team’s “single focus.”
Warren doesn’t sound like he’ll be much involved with how the Bears use the number 1 in the 2023 NFL draft, or anything else related to the team on the field. Instead, Warren was tasked with conducting the necessary business to move the bears to a state-of-the-art facility. Warren said he envisions the Bears building the kind of stadium that can bring major events to the Chicago area 365 days a year.
Warren currently serves as the commissioner of the Big Ten, where he met quarterback Justin Fields, who as quarterback at Ohio State spearheaded a movement of Big Ten players pushing to play in 2020 when the conference was scheduled at one point to cancel his entire season due to the pandemic. Warren said he respects Fields and sees him as the kind of person a franchise can win championships with.
But for Warren, the primary focus is on a stadium that could one day host a Super Bowl, rather than building a team that will play in a Super Bowl.