LAKE FOREST, Ailing. — Caleb Williams has spent the previous three weeks of apply getting a really feel for the probabilities of the Chicago Bears’ offense, and he left obligatory minicamp Thursday with one prevailing thought.
“Proper now we’re working with our head down and we’re constructing,” Williams stated. “So simply having that second with myself, I do it day-after-day. I sit there and I say, ‘We will be fairly rattling good.'”
Williams, the No. 1 decide within the 2024 draft, skilled ups and downs all through the Bears’ three-day minicamp, however coach Matt Eberflus stated he noticed progress with how Williams dealt with Thursday’s crimson zone interval in comparison with final week. The rookie quarterback additionally improved the best way he lined up formations and adjusted protections, and he displayed an understanding of assorted cross ideas.
“I believe that Caleb is a expertise,” Eberflus stated. “An excellent expertise. His sport will go to the place it must be.”
Williams praised his teammates for being “swish and inspiring” to him all through practices by uplifting him on days when the offense excelled and providing phrases of encouragement when the unit struggled.
The quarterback famous his struggles with perfecting the cadence, which Eberflus stated earlier within the week he wished your complete offense to enhance upon earlier than dismissing veteran gamers till coaching camp.
By the tip of minicamp, Williams stated he felt he improved in not being too loud or too quiet when vocalizing the snap rely and in exhibiting his capability to throw with anticipation in comparison with earlier within the week.
“I did not are available in essentially with the expectation to be and appear to be a 13-year vet,” Williams stated. “I got here in to work, to work my tail off, present the fellows that I am right here, I am working my tail off, I am progressing and making an attempt to not make the identical mistake once more. That is the most important factor, day in and time out, is making an attempt to not make the identical mistake time and again and study from them.”
Bears rookies will wrap up spring exercises subsequent week with one other three days of OTA practices earlier than breaking for the summer season. Within the coming weeks, Chicago’s entrance workplace will work to get each of the group’s first-round picks — Williams and broad receiver Rome Odunze — underneath contract.
The worth of Williams’ four-year contract is an estimated $39.5 million with a $25.5 million signing bonus. Williams shouldn’t be represented by an agent and is deferring to a group of attorneys and advisors to get the deal accomplished.
“I am not dealing with that,” Williams stated. “I have been targeted on these previous three days of minicamp, the OTAs earlier than that and rookie camp earlier than that. … I’ve attorneys and attorneys to deal with issues like that so I may be free-minded on the sphere, having fun with coming into work day-after-day and dealing my tail off.”