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If everything goes right for the Chicago Bears, Sunday will be a day their fans will remember forever.
That is the day Caleb Williams, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, will play his first NFL game as the Bears’ starting quarterback. Williams is tasked with changing eons of history — despite being one of the NFL’s founding members, the Bears are the only franchise in the league that has never had a quarterback throw for over 4,000 yards in a season.
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Enter Williams, whose start Sunday will complete a dazzling ascent from elite high school recruit in the middle of a global pandemic to unlikely hero in one of college football’s biggest rivalries to the face of the sport’s new era of player movement to Heisman Trophy winner and generational NFL prospect who has been compared to Patrick Mahomes — even, apparently, by one of Mahomes’ most prolific former teammates.
So before Williams takes his biggest step yet, let’s look back at his journey to this point:
July 4, 2020
Williams, a consensus five-star quarterback recruit out of Washington, D.C., commits to Oklahoma. Williams still has his senior year of high school ahead of him (he’ll graduate and enroll in Oklahoma early after his senior season is canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), but he figures to become the next quarterback to excel under Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley.
Spencer Rattler, another former five-star, is expected to start ahead of Williams in 2021, giving the true freshman a season to get acclimated and learn Riley’s offense before taking the reins. Here’s a snippet of what 247Sports wrote about Williams as a prospect all the way back in Fall 2018, when he was a high school sophomore:
“Dynamic athlete who can devastate defenses with his arm or legs. Great competitor with high intangibles. Natural leader and makes big plays. Strong, accurate arm. Tight release. Can throw 15-yard out, has…
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Publish date : 2024-09-05 19:12:48
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