With Caleb Williams Disforced to go first to bears in the 2024 draft, the quarter-back camp considered unconventional options in order to avoid Chicago. In the next book by Seth Wickersham, “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback”, there are notable anecdotes (via ESPN.com) surrounding the distrust of Williams to go to the Bears.
The player’s father, Carl Williams, described Chicago as “the quarters of the place will die”, the QB himself questioning his ability to succeed in the offensive coordinator then Shane WaldronSystem. The Williams camp went so far as to consider completely bypassing the project, by consulting lawyers in the ways they could “achieve collective negotiation of the League”. One of the options considered to have seen Williams sign with the United Football League.
Carl Williams clearly told the agents that he did not want her son to play for the Bears. More specifically, the quarter-arre camp cited the recent success of the franchise in position, as well as the uncertainty of the Bears stadium and lukewarm performance under the coach then head Mast Eberflus.
While the Williams camp was looking for means for the prospect of choosing its own landing point, Carl Williams consulted Archie Manninghelped Eli Manning Avoid the chargeers in favor of the Giants in 2004. In addition to his overall concern about Chicago, Carl Williams also had problems with the recruit wages of the League and the fact that any franchise could actually prevent the first -round choices from hitting the free agency for eight years.
A conversation with the Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell had a quarter-arre which demanded a way to play Minnesota. After Bears GM Polish Ryan “Stay firm” and refused to exchange the first choice that the camps of the players planned to make the situation untenable by attacking both the organization and the city of Chicago. In the end, a pre-Rôti visit to the Bears facilities prevented Williams and his family from making public demonstrations, and he ended up landing in Chicago with the first choice.
Of course, since Williams was written, the Bears have already undergone significant changes in leadership. Waldron was the first victim of the disappointing start of the Bears of the season, and Eberflus also crossed the entire NFL campaign of the QB (before that, Wickersham passes a story where Williams studied the film alone, without instruction of the coaches). The team has since hired former Lions OC Ben Johnson To guide the team, and the new head coach said that he had no concerns about today’s report.
“I see a chance of magnitude here for him”, “ Johnson said during an appearance today on The herd. “It was communicated in this way and it feels the same thing. I don’t know what happened before joining the organization, but it is very proud to be a chicago bear. This is what our conversations have included. It is really excited to get to work right now and be the best version of itself for 2025.”
