Bears QB Caleb Williams quiets controversy from guide excerpt

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams sought to quiet the debate about how he hadn’t sought after to come back to his present workforce previous to the 2024 draft.

Williams admitted an ESPN tale about an upcoming guide by means of Seth Wickersham on quarterbacks was once true in that he did like the speculation of going to the Minnesota Vikings to start with, however this was once previous to his first discuss with to Chicago. Then, Williams stated, he sought after to be with the Bears.

“Yeah, I had a good visit at the other place — Minnesota, with (coach) Kevin O’Connell,” Williams stated. “Good workforce and all of that clearly. He simply received the trainer of the yr award and such things as that. Obviously, excellent workforce and such things as that.

“But something that keeps getting lost, something that keeps getting, I think, not being addressed the way it needs to be is the fact that I went on that visit first, came here and then after I came here, I went back home and talked to my dad.”

His remark to his father, Carl Williams, was once he sought after to play for the Bears and grow to be the quarterback who leads them out of a historical past of suffering quarterbacks.

“This whole storm that happened, it wasn’t something that we wanted to have happen at this point,” Williams stated all over a information convention Wednesday all over the Bears OTAs. “We’re targeted at the provide, we’re serious about now, we’re serious about looking to get this send shifting in the best course. And I believe thus far that’s what we’ve been doing.

“But for this to come out it’s been a distraction.”

The guide, “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback,” appears at many QBs however Williams’ phase main points how he and his father thought of the potential of discovering a approach to circumvent the NFL draft in 2024 to keep away from coming to Chicago. Williams classified any of the early dialogue as mere ideas, no longer motion.

“Those are thoughts that go throughout your head in those situations,” Williams stated. “All of those are thoughts. And then after I came on my visit here, it was a deliberate answer and deliberate and determined answer that I had is that I wanted to come here.”

The Bears quarterback noticed maximum of what have been written as historical historical past, however did label one side of an ESPN tale at the guide as false or misinterpreted. It was once a declare he didn’t know the way to observe movie and the Bears workforce below former trainer Matt Eberflus didn’t lend a hand him.

“So that was a funny one that came out, that in context, in how that was trying to be portrayed, didn’t get portrayed that way,” Williams stated. “It wasn’t that I didn’t know how to watch film, it was trying to figure on the best ways and more efficient ways.”

Williams expects new trainer Ben Johnson will make a distinction in his movie looking at.

“He’s been in this offence for six years,” Williams stated. “He’s really been on top of it and we’re really only trying to catch up, I’m only trying to catch up to him and be on top of the details as much as possible.”

Williams stated his father’s enter was once valued and at all times is, however in relation to the guide he almost certainly went too some distance or wasn’t completely transparent with some feedback made.

“Definitely a grown man, I shut him down quite a lot just because in season and out of season, it’s something you have to do,” Williams stated. “He cares such a lot about me and my long term and we now have been alongside this adventure goodbye in combination, all he needs is the most efficient for me.

“So if anything happens and he’s super hot-headed and it’s more of like ‘All right, go ahead and go away. Go reset.’ Things like that. Love him to death and things like that, super fortunate to have him. We have talked about it. Understanding that there’s a right place and a right time and there are times that there is not.”

The guide is scheduled to be launched Sept. 9, an afternoon after the Bears open the season in opposition to the Vikings in a house Monday evening recreation to be televised by means of ESPN.