Caleb Williams sought ways to avoid getting drafted by Bears, per new book

Caleb Williams is totally interrupted as the head of the Chicago Bears Field, entering his second season with the franchise. However, if he and his family had their initial opinion, Williams could have been playing the field marshal elsewhere in 2025.

Before the NFL draft of 2024, Williams and his family sought ways to potentially avoid the draft process, going as consulting with lawyers to find an escape in the collective bargaining agreement and weigh the idea of ud up, agreeing the appeal to the comords configurations, biography of the quarterback. “

In a direct appointment of the book, the father of Caleb Williams, Carl, told author Seth Wickersham that “Chicago is the place where field marshals are going to die.” In addition, Williams had also questioned his offensive coordinator of FIT With Bears, Shane Waldron, before the team has touched it with the general selection number 1 in the NFL 2024 draft, Children to the book.

Other findings of “American Kings” that surround Williams include the desire of the field marshal of being recruited by the Vikings of Minnesota after a meeting with chief coach Kevin O’Connell and considers an attack plan for the Bears to exchange the general selection number 1. However, Williams yielded to that idea.

“I was ready to attack the city,” Williams told Wickersham or the possible idea of forcing Chicago to exchange the selection that used to select it.

Before the 2024 NFL draft, there were some rumors that Williams and his camp of the ways to avoid ending the bears, since he had his leg widely considered one of the best field marshal perspectives in recent memory. Such movement is not unprecedented, but it is strange and has not happened in recent years. John Elway used his background of baseball to force an exchange to the Denver Broncos after the Indianapolis Colts did so with the general selection number 1 in 1983. Bo Jackson refused to play for the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay after the team touched him with the no. 1 Selection in 1986, choosing to play baseball instead. In 2004, New York giants ended up taking Eli Manning with the general selection number 1 after his family told Conerns about playing for the chargers.

Pootoly, Williams said he would agree to end the bears duration of the NFL 2024 exploration combination.

“If the bears recruit me, I will be excited,” Williams told ESPN at that time. “If you exchange the selection, and another person recruits me, I am so excited. Speaking of Chicago, they have a talented team, an offensive and talented defense. For anyone in that area, I think they are excited.

“I am not pressing any agenda,” Williams added about the possibility of demanding an exchange. “At the end of the day, the bears have the last word. Regardless of how I feel, I am not pressing an agenda or” yes, I want to go. Or no, I don’t want to go. “I am excited about what comes.”

What will the success for Caleb Williams in year 2 be like?

While Williams any Vally warmed up with the idea of playing for the Bears, his rookie season was not too good. He put a respectable statistics line, completed 62.5% of his passes for 3,541 yards, 20 touchdowns and six interceptions to go with a pin rating 87.8 and 489 yards per land. However, Williams was fired from a league leading 68 times and Chicago’s offensive occupied the last place in total yards. It was also the 28th place in annotations.

In the midst of those struggles, the Bears Fire Waldron after their defeat for week 10 against the New England patriots. Three weeks later, chief coach Matt Eberflus was fired after a devastating defeat before the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving. That marked the sixth defeat for the Bears on a losing run of 10 games, which made them end the year with a 5-12 record after going 4-2 before their week.

When the Bears season came into free fall, Williams also had some problems behind the scene. He told his father that he saw only one movie because nobody instructed him which film to see, according to the “American kings.”

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The Bears hired Detroit Lions Ben Johnson’s offensive coordinator to replace Eberflus as a chief coach in January, collecting one of the main training products in recent years to help Williams in the year 2 and beyond. Johnson’s hiring, plus an occupied relapse that saw the inner bear of his offensive line, makes Williams “super excited” for the 2025 season.

“Being able to be in this position, to be able to have a first year I did, the ups and downs, and then be able to enter here, be as safe as last year the same and power, I have been the group of this increasing color that we have used to work this growing, this gave Grow This Grow This, we have been used to work this.” Williams reports in April.

“We have a good group of boys in terms of personality, and then obviously or our first training, and [we’re] Putting it “

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