I Feel Better About Caleb Williams Than Ever After He Supposedly Tried To Force His Way Out Of Chicago Before The Draft

"Chicago is the place quarterbacks go to die," Carl Williams, Caleb's father, told Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," in the months before the 2024 draft.

Caleb Williams wondered aloud to confidants: "Do I want to go there? I don't think I can do it with [former Bears offensive coordinator Shane] Waldron."

This story is starting to go nuts on the internet. Caleb and his dad never wanted Chicago. They wanted Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings

File that one under "no duh". These blurbs give me more confidence in Caleb Williams than ever. Caleb met with Waldron and Eberflus and came away thinking that they were such baffoons that he was going to try to get a trade to Minnesota. That's a W for Caleb. It'd be way more cause for concern if he came away impressed with Eberflus and Waldron. 

Caleb definitely had some bumps in the road last year, but maybe it was because of this:

Coach yourself, kid. Good luck.

In reality we don't have the slightest idea of what Caleb can be in the NFL because he's never had a coach or an offensive line. Now, in theory, he has both. He is going to be coached hard. He has weapons. He has a guy who will make his life infinitely easier with scheme and probably infinitely harder with practice and film(in a good way) in Ben Johnson. All is well that ends well. Caleb has his coach. The Bears have their QB. Time to move forward towards being a real NFL franchise. 

PS: I'd love to know how Eberflus got through the hiring process and then saved his job before last season. It was a cluster fuck from the word go.