Dan Wiederer: With Justin Fields gone and Caleb Williams likely on the way, can Bears fans keep their QB expectations reasonable?
CHICAGO — If Caleb Williams has done any sort of extensive homework on the 104 seasons of Chicago Bears quarterback history, it wasn’t apparent when he met with a massive media horde at the NFL scouting combine earlier this month.
Less than two minutes into his rapid-fire Q-and-A session on a brightly lit stage in Indianapolis, Williams was reminded that the Bears “haven’t had a whole lot of dominant quarterback play” and was asked if that affected him at all.
“No,” he said. “Not at all. I don’t compare myself to the other guys who are there or have been there. I think I’m my own player.”
And then he dropped the line that will follow him into the NFL and throughout his professional playing career.
“I tend to like to create history and rewrite history,” Williams said.
Well, kid, the pen should be yours soon, with a stack of
