LAKE FOREST, In poor health. — Forward of rookie minicamp Friday, Bears coach Matt Eberflus wasted no time in naming Caleb Williams as Chicago’s beginning quarterback.
“No dialog,” Eberflus mentioned. “He is the starter.”
Eberflus’ declaration confirmed the inevitable determination for the Bears after they drafted the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner with the No. 1 choose final month. Williams was the one quarterback the Bears hosted on a top-30 go to, and Chicago was the one crew Williams visited forward of the draft. Bears coaches started educating the previous USC quarterback their offense forward of his professional day in Los Angeles and once more whereas Williams visited Halas Corridor in early April.
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Williams additionally took it upon himself to work along with his non-public quarterback coach, Will Hewlett, on the basics of the Bears’ offense earlier than taking the sphere for this weekend’s minicamp.
“You all the time need to get forward in case you can, and so with these issues that they gave me, I’d take it to my QB coach and we’d use the cadence, we’d use the drops, we’d use all these issues in order that’s not one thing that is on my thoughts all through the method of after I truly received right here,” Williams mentioned.
Eberflus mentioned the Bears gave Williams and Hewlett the fundamentals of the offense, which the quarterback mentioned included the verbiage, route tree, cadence, and find out how to function out and in of the huddle.
The top begin has given Williams the boldness to assist others study the offense on the rookie minicamp.
“Proper now I really feel fairly good,” Williams mentioned. “Clearly we’ll exit right here immediately, and we will have a couple of mess-ups, in all probability, and issues like that, working to do, get rid of these as quick as doable. However you want these issues to develop and progress all through the time and years and issues like that. So excited, however I really feel fairly good proper now.”
Eberflus mentioned the Bears have a number of benchmarks they count on Williams to succeed in over the subsequent few months forward of coaching camp.
“Full understanding of the ideas: run, go, checks and his fundamentals,” Eberflus mentioned. “The basics that we’ve in place for him, which, he is actually good essentially, however we’ve some issues we wish him to work on and enhance as nicely.”
