What can we expect from Caleb Williams in second year with Ben Johnson?
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Find a great Toyota Truck Month deal today when you visit BuyAToyota.com. That's BuyAToyota.com. Toyota, let's go places. Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Midday's Tindall 2. On Chicago Sports Radio, 104.3 The Score. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score, and this is something that amidst all of the business of the Bears and the discussion surrounding what the priorities are or maybe what they see, it kind of got lost in the shuffle, and I think it deserves discussion with you, Mark Grody. Ben Johnson, in a side session with the media at the Combine last week, was asked about what he expects to see from his quarterback Caleb Williams in year two. What are the advantages Caleb has being in the off-season in his second year with you in terms of knowing what you want and also how much growth can be made because it's not new anymore.
It's focusing in, I guess. Yeah, well, I mean, we saw... enormous growth over the course of the season. You know, I keep going back to what seven-on-seven looked like at the end of the year versus what it looked like to start the year. A drill as simple as that, and yet you see him look so much more comfortable going through some of those same plays. You know, a lot of it was like riding the bike for the first time with some of these concepts. You just hadn't seen it, and you get thrown – a different coverage each and every time now you can accelerate your vision a little bit more and that's what he's learned to do and that's where i'm really confident the direction he's going uh i'm excited for him um i think he's gonna be able to look at some of these cutouts from self scout and look at what he could have done a little bit better um i'm i think what's most encouraging to me is something happened at the end of the year where i showed him one thing on tape
and didn't even think it would come up in the next game, and yet it did. And then he threw the ball to the exact spot that I would have wanted him to throw the ball to. Now, the result of the play wasn't what we wanted to for other reasons, and yet something as simple as that, I'm like, holy cow, if this guy can take one little nugget that we talked about the week prior and we really weren't emphasizing and yet be able to apply that real time in a game – Man, he's really going to ascend quickly. And so I'm looking forward to it. I really do think this next offseason, we'll see significant strides. That's high praise from Ben Johnson. And he sounds a lot different about Kayla Williams and talking about him now than he did, say, this time right before the season began, for example, after her training camp.
Yeah, and there's still obvious places where Caleb Williams still needs to work. The easiest one, completion percentage, 58.1% was 32nd in the league. All the stuff, checkdowns, footwork, the runner ball that we always talk about that he got better at. The one thing, Layla, that has bothered me all year about Caleb Williams or since he's been with the Bears and I bring it up a lot and that's the batted down balls at the line of scrimmage and I'm like I was thinking like he's got to be up there in the league and yeah as it turns out Caleb Williams had 18 passes batted down at the line last year tied for second in the league with Dak Prescott behind Trevor Lawrence who had a league high 20 of those from from last year so there's some like
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