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Keenan Allen’s special praise, rookie captain honors proof Bears’ Caleb Williams plan working originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Cincinnati Bengals star quarterback Joe Burrow thought it was obvious: if you spend a draft pick on a quarterback to be the franchise’s future, you should pour everything into him from Day 1. That includes making him the starter and giving him as many reps as possible to learn, grow, and succeed early on.
“I think those reps are so valuable,” Burrow said after the Bengals’ joint practice with the Bears in August. “I think you have to start ’em right away, because you learn so much in that first year when you’re getting those reps and when you come in, and you’re named the starter immediately … I’ll never quite understand when you draft a guy that you know is going to be your starter, but then you don’t name him your starter immediately and so then he misses out on all those reps with the ones that you would have had had you just come in as the starter.”
That’s a trap past Bears regimes have fallen into with first-round picks Mitchell Trubisky and Justin Fields, asking the young signal-callers to compete with and sit behind veterans Mike Glennon and Andy Dalton.
Bears general manager Ryan Poles was hired to “break the cycle.” The cycle of losing and ruining quarterbacks.
Poles spent the early part of the offseason adding talent to a roster that could support No. 1 overall pick Caleb Williams. After drafting Williams in April, the Bears immediately named him the starter and went to work preparing him for everything that was about to come his way.
That included head coach Matt Eberflus insisting that Williams and the first-team offense do their work against the Bears’ ascending top-five defense. Instead of allowing Williams to find quick success against the Bears’ twos and threes, Eberflus and the Bears’ staff made sure the difficulty level was cranked up from the get-go.
“We could do things differently where I say,…
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Publish date : 2024-09-04 20:22:43
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