Caleb Williams desperately wanted to be chosen by the Vikings of Minnesota and not by the Chicago Bears at the NFL 2024 draft, says a new book.
Williams was first chosen by the Bears and endured a disruptive recruit season in the NFL, head coach Matt Eberflus fired the campaign halfway and the team losing 10 consecutive games.
But a new book to come from Seth Wickersham from ESPN reveals that Williams and his family had a bad feeling about the franchise before being drafted, but the Bears stood firm and insist that they would take Williams.
“Do I want to go?” I don’t think I can do it with Waldron ”, said people around him about the then offensive coordinator, Shane Waldron.
“I need to go to the Vikings,” said the book to Williams to his father, Carl, after a meeting with Kevin O’Connell on the combination of the NFL.
Carl would have agreed with her son, said several agents as the project approaches: “I don’t want my son to play for the Bears.”
Caleb Williams wanted to be drafted by the Vikings of Minnesota, a new book says
The USC quarter-rear would have changed his mind after a visit to Chicago, saying to his father: “I can do it for this team. I’m going to go to the bears.
During his recruit season, Williams apparently told his father that he wanted more advice from senior personalities such as Eberflus and Walden.
“No one tells me what to look at, I turn it on (the film),” said ESPN.
Ironically, Williams and the Bears will start the 2025 season against the Vikings of Minnesota to Soldier Field, with O’Connell starting with the quarter that he finally took in the same project as Williams in JJ McCarthy.
McCarthy was injured in the pre-season knee, which means that her recruit year was over before she started properly.
The second game of the season sees Williams directing the Bears against the Lions of Detroit, the team that his new coach Ben Johnson let take over in Chicago.
Johnson congratulated Williams at his introductory press conference and said that working with the quarter-Arrière was a key reason to join the team.
But the Bears, which ended the season with a 5-12 file, are in one of the most indiscuctions of NFL with the Vikings, Lions and Packers.
