Dont look now, but Caleb Williams is currently on historic pace

Carmen Vitali

NFL Reporter

Let’s get this disclaimer out of the way: the Chicago Bears have played some struggling teams the past few weeks. They won their third straight on Sunday by drubbing the now 1-5 Jacksonville Jaguars in London to improve to 4-2 on the season.

Before Sunday, it was a beat-up (but still viable!) Los Angeles Rams team. Before that, the Indianapolis Colts. 

But I’m not going to sit here and pretend the Bears always do what they’re supposed to do against struggling teams. I’m certainly not going to sit here and pretend it comes in dominating fashion when they do. Chicago scored over 35 points in back-to-back games for the first time since 2013. 

Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams became the first Bears quarterback to post three consecutive games with a triple-digit passer rating since Jay Cutler did it within his first four games in Chicago in 2009. It’s been 15 years.

Williams completed 23 of 29 pass attempts for 226 yards and four touchdowns against one interception in the win over the Jaguars. His completion rate of 79.3% was the highest in Week 6 through the first window among qualified quarterbacks.

Williams is the first Chicago rookie quarterback with four or more wins through the team’s first six games and those four wins are already tied for the second-most by a rookie quarterback in team history for a single season.

There was history written all over this win, in fact.

A few stats for you:

Williams is the first rookie quarterback to have zero passing touchdowns in his first two games and then throw for eight or more in his next four at any point in the season since 1950.Williams is the third Bears rookie quarterback ever to throw 4 TD passes in a game and the first to do so since 1999 (Cade McNown in 1999 and Ray Buivid in 1937).Williams has the most touchdown passes by a Bears rookie quarterback in any three-game span (7) or any four-game span (9) all-time.Only two Bears QBs have three…


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Publish date : 2024-10-13 21:57:58

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