The quarter-back Caleb Williams was so concerned about being chosen by the Bears of Chicago in 2024 that he and his family weighed by bypassing the entire NFL draft, consultant of lawyers to find a way to bypass the collective negotiation of the League while considering signing with the United Football League, the details of a future book.
“Chicago is the place that quarter-arre will die,” said Carl Williams, Caleb’s father, at Seth Wickersham, author of “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback”, in the months preceding the 2024 recovery.
Caleb Williams wondered aloud the confidants: “Do I want to go there? I don’t think I can do it with (the former offensive coordinator of the Bears Shane) Waldron.”
The next book, which will be published in September, offers a detailed account of what it means to be a quarter-Arrière at different levels, from high school to college to NFL, and what it is for retired legends. He has unprecedented access with dozens of quarters and great generational such as John Elway, Johnny Unitas, Warren Moon, members of the Manning family and Steve Young, among others. It also includes current content such as Kirk Cousins and Drake Maye.
In addition, there are new details in the ruthless recruitment of the quarter-Arrière of Texas Arch Manning and the quarter-Arrière circuit for young people. He also recounts the wreckage of the death car from Lsu Colin Hurley quarterrière in January and subsequent complete recovery. Wickersham is an ESPN journalist; His first book on the New England Patriots was a bestseller of the New York Times.
This book offers an overview of Williams’ state of mind.
Carl Williams made great efforts to try to get around the NFL recovery, writes Wickersham, wanting to give her son the opportunity to choose his future employer. The Bears had not written a star quarterrier since the 1980s, and their recent recourse selections, Mitchell Trubisky and Justin Fields, did not take place. Carl Williams feared that, with the history of the franchise, the uncertainty of the stadium and the offensive performances under the head coach of the time, Matt Eberflus, Caleb Williams would not have organizational support to succeed.
“I don’t want my son to play for the Bears,” Williams told several agents in 2024.
In search of a way to get around the collective agreement of the League, Carl Williams spoke with Archie Manning, who helped Eli Manning to assert a measure of control over his possible team in 2004. He also met lawyers and labor agents – and even examined if his son could sign with the United Football League and become an unrestricted free agent of the NFL in 2025 A team. In addition to the project process, Carl Williams passed out on the Recruit salary scale, which could lock his son in the team that wrote him up to eight years. It has calculated hundreds of millions of lost market value revenues.
“The recruit cap is simply unconstitutional,” said Carl Williams to Wickersham, adding later that the ABC is the “worst piece of S — I never read. It is the worst in the history of sport.”
After a last season from top to bottom at the USC, Caleb Williams was not sure of what he wanted to do while he was preparing for the 2024 draft. At the NFL combination that year, he met the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O’Connell. The two struck and Caleb Williams began to dream of what it would be to play for Minnesota.
“I need to go to the Vikings,” he told his father.
“Let’s do it,” replied his father. But Caleb and Carl knew that a trade in a divisional rival was extremely improbable.
GM Ryan’s posts have remained firm, saying to Williams: “We write to you whatever happens.”
This left an option: publicly attacking the Bears and the city of Chicago, hoping that it would make the situation untenable – similar to what Jack and John Elway had done with the Baltimore colts in 1983.
“He is worried that I take bullets,” said Carl Williams to Wickersham from his son. “I don’t care. I do not agree with this s —, you know? I am more interested in ensuring that he can do what he wants to do.”
But Caleb feared that if they were trying and the Bears refused to exchange it, it would worsen a difficult situation. In the end, Caleb Williams told Wickersham: “I was not ready to establish the city.”
After a sampling visit to the installation of the Bears, Williams thought he could be part of a process to transform the franchise.
“I can do it for this team,” Caleb told his father. “I’m going to go to the Bears.”
The Bears refused to comment.
The book also sheds light on the tumultuous recruit season of Williams, in which Eberflus and Waldon were fired and the Bears lost 10 consecutive games.
Sometimes Williams said he was watching the film alone, without instruction or orientation of the coaches. “No one tells me what to watch,” Caleb Williams told his father. “I light it.”
Caleb Williams has mainly played well as a recruit, despite the instability of coaching. For the year, he completed 62.5% of his passes, with 20 Touché passes and six interceptions. He was dismissed 68 times at the top of the league.
The Bears hired the offensive coordinator of the Lions of Detroit, Ben Johnson, in January. Addressing journalists in April, Caleb Williams was excited.
“Being able to be in this position, being able to have a first year as I did, the ups and downs, then to be able to come here, be as confident as last year or perhaps even more and be able to arrive here with the group we are, I can’t wait to work with these guys,” he said.
“He pushes me is the key,” he said. “I know it, and he knows it. … I can’t wait and be able to help me know more about ball because he’s super smart, super sharp.”
