Caleb Williams did not want to have anything to do with the Bears of Chicago, approaching the NFL draft last year, and the winner of the Heisman trophy of 2022 and his father examined how they could have the hand in which the team selected it, according to a book to be published in September.
In “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback”, the author and journalist of ESPN, Seth Wickersham, describes how Williams and his father, Carl Williams, asked the lawyers to find a bypass of the collective agreement of the NFL, explored the signature of the united football league and considered the public of Chicago and unshakable for the team.
“Chicago is the place that the quarter-backs will die,” said Carl Williams before the draft, according to the book.
The story of the book on the disdain before the Williamses’ cog in the Bears was reported Thursday by ESPN.
Caleb Williams told the confidants that he did not think he could work with the offensive coordinator of the time, Shane Waldron. The Director General of Bears, Ryan Pole, told Williams: “We write to you whatever happens.”
Williams resigned himself to being drafted by the Bears, and after a pre-dechiet visit to the team’s facilities, he thought he could help direct a turnaround.
“I can do it for this team,” Caleb told his father, according to the book. “I’m going to go to the Bears.”
Williams launched 20 affected, was intercepted six times and took a top of 68 bags as a recruit. The Bears managed a sequence of 10 consecutive defeats and finished 5-12. Waldron was dismissed nine games in the season and coach Matt Eberflus was released after the 12th game.
The Bears hired Detroit Lions Ben Johnson’s offensive coordinator as head coach in January. Declan Doyle, who had been assistant in New Orleans and Denver, is the new offensive coordinator.
Wickersham’s book is published by Hyperion Avenue, a division of the parent company of ESPN, the Walt Disney Co.
