Caleb Williams’ sharp preseason debut caps best stretch of Bears camp

CHICAGO – After the Bears were one of the three teams not to score on their opening offensive possession in 2024, the quarter -Arrière Caleb Williams led the offensive in the first team on an opening journey of seven games on Sunday evening which made 92 yards for a TD and served as a declaration on the identity that Chicago tries to create.

“I think that gives us a tone as a team,” said Williams, playing his first pre-season match, after demolition 38-0 of the Bears of a Buffalo Bills team who knew most of his starters. “I think it gives a tone about how we expect to play, go out, play. So yes, it was extremely important.”

The Bears started with the ball after the Bills won the draw and postponed to the second half. After an accident of the large receiver, Tyler Scott, while turning the opening kick -off put the Bears on their own 8 yards line, Williams operated a journey of more than four minutes which culminated with him finding the large Olamideaus receiver for a pass of 36 yards.

The old choice n ° 1 took the ground for the first time in pre-season Sunday after he and most of the starters sat down 24-24 last week with the Miami dolphins. Williams delivered the throws at first sight at the tight ends that Cochston Loveland and Cole Kmet, relied on his relations established with the wide receiver DJ Moore, and demonstrated his grass chemistry with Zaccheaus on a journey in which he connected with the four walkways.

In 13 shots that lasted two discs, Williams was 6 for 107 yards, a touch and a score of 103.6 passers -by. His beginnings of pre-season under coach Ben Johnson intervened after his best section of a training camp, which included a joint practice with the Bills on Friday.

“He was really locked up,” said Johnson. “Whenever you are a young player, there are generally a few steps forward and one step back. And it is really the story of this training camp. He and I were really open and honest on this subject while we lived. And he had very good practices, and he had a couple where it is not good enough.

“I really thought that the three days of practice that we had this week and this game was the most he has stacked good days at the moment. The challenge will continue to push this direction.”

Williams recognized these same challenges.

“I think I had some of these practices throughout the training camp where I feel like I took two steps,” said Williams. “Perhaps a bad practice or small things that I have the impression of having overcome, then I took a step back. So, it is just being able to keep this state of mind. The state of mind of growth, the idea that it is an understanding of that – continue to grow and continue after and continue to direct these guys.”

Although Friday’s training was tainted by several false starts by the offensive line, which is still looking for its left -wing tackle, Williams organized a solid outing against the defense of the first Bills team and did not launch any interception. He had 9 for 10 in exercises of 7 against 7 and found the Rome Odunze wide receiver for consecutive affected affairs for a red zone period. Williams connected to Zaccheaus in the middle of the third down that the receiver took 45 yards for a touchdown during a period of 11 against 11.

During training on Wednesday and Thursday, Williams shone in the two -minute exercise while continuing to perfect his link with Odunze and Zaccheaus.

These moments of momentum creation, associated with the difficulties that the quarter-arre was able to overcome, shaped its point of view on the challenges of learning a new offense.

“Until a month ago, I think I grew up a lot,” said Williams. “Now, my state of mind is to continue to grow. It is my state of mind since I was a little child, to continue to grow. Where I see myself, I think that the idea is to be able to manage everything I can and all that Ben says that I should be able to manage. If this is what the fact of doing in a coherent way in the coming years is important to me.”.

The rescue quarter Tyson Bodent took over for Williams on the third journey of the Bears and played until the end of the third quarter. Bodent completed 13 of his 22 passes for 196 yards and a touchdown. Chicago surpassed Buffalo of 348 yards on Sunday evening, with the offensive coordinator Declan Doyle who takes control of Johnson’s calculation tasks for the second half.