(670 The Score) The Bears have run countless plays across two weeks of training camp, the foundation on which second-year quarterback Caleb Williams is developing, but it was one moment in particular that went viral last week.
It was a clip of Williams throwing – unsuccessfully – into a net. That spread on social media, with fans and skeptics of Williams reacting as they do.
Williams shrugged off the viral moment while understanding the nature of social media.
“It’s a quick-delivery drill,” Williams said. “You catch (the snap), you’re not trying to get the laces or anything. It’s not like you’re going through reads. It’s catch, deliver and try to deliver to the bottom left corner. We’re trying to aim as if it’s a screen. It’s a competition between (the quarterbacks), how fast you can get it out, how accurate you can get it out. They just so happened to blow that one out and not the other ones. It’s a fun drill to work on accuracy and not using the laces, and also just getting your feet up under you and working on throws.
“I just laugh at it. I look at it and I laugh at them, as always. We’re out here working. We’re getting after it. We’re competing, and that’s one of the drills in which we were competing.
“It’s something fun, something competitive. I was competing and I missed it and it was fake anger that I had, that I showed.”
The Bears will play their preseason opener Sunday at Soldier Field against the Dolphins. It’s still unclear whether Williams and the team’s starters will play.