Caleb's QB coach has huge praises for the young rookie
Caleb Williams named Bears starting quarterback ahead of rookie minicamp
Ahead of the rookie minicamp on Friday, Bears coach Matt Eberflus wasted no time in naming Caleb Williams as Chicago's starting quarterback.
"No conversation," Eberflus said. "He's the starter."
Eberflus' declaration confirmed the inevitable decision for the Bears after they drafted the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner with the No. 1 pick last month. Williams was the only quarterback the Bears hosted on a top-30 visit, and Chicago was the only team he visited ahead of the draft. Bears coaches began teaching the former USC quarterback their offense ahead of his pro day in Los Angeles and again during Williams' visit to Halas Hall in early April.
Williams also took it upon himself to work with his private quarterback coach, Will Hewlett, on the fundamentals of the Bears' offense before taking the field for this weekend's minicamp.
"You always want to get ahead if you can, and so with those things that they gave me, I would take it to my QB trainer and we would use the cadence, we would use the drops, we would use all those things so that's not something that's on my mind throughout the process of when I actually got here," Williams said.
Eberflus said the Bears gave Williams and Hewlett the basics of the offense, which the quarterback said included the verbiage, route tree, cadence, and how to operate in and out of the huddle.
The head start has given Williams the confidence to help others learn the offense at the rookie minicamp.
"Right now I feel pretty good," Williams said. "Obviously we'll go out here today, and we're going to have a few mess-ups, probably, and things like that, working to do, eliminate those as fast as possible. But you need those things to grow and progress throughout the time and years and things like that. So excited, but I feel pretty good right now."
Eberflus said the Bears have several benchmarks they expect Williams to reach over the next few months ahead of training camp.
"Full understanding of the concepts: run, pass, checks and his fundamentals," Eberflus said. "The fundamentals that we have in place for him, which, he's really good fundamentally, but we have some things we want him to work on and improve as well."
Hewlett is quite impressed with Williams' physical gifts.
«The unique thing about Caleb is, if you present him with a scenario that's going to produce some kind of difficult throw, he is always able to find a way to make that throw,» Hewlett stated. «I've never worked with someone that's able to get the ball from awkward situations, on time, with velocity than anyone before. Those are the things we see on the field that obviously, the plays you see on Saturdays that now you're going to see on Sundays, but in training, it was very clear that these things are real and they're reproducible and he's able to have control of his body in certain situations that I haven't seen before. There's very few guys that have that level of fluidity and control and awareness and he's one of those guys and that's why he's one of the best prospects of all-time.»
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