Cole Kmet Reveals What He Seen From Caleb Williams At OTA’s as demand for additional quarterback
After decades of mediocre quarterbacks coming and going, the Chicago Bears finally got the ideal opportunity to bring in a potential game-changer in the form of former USC superstar Caleb Williams, with the team taking him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.
Although Williams has yet to take a snap in the NFL in a Bears uniform, many believe the storied franchise has found a legitimate NFL superstar to lead their team for the foreseeable future, as many have sung his praises since he officially became a professional.
Despite the constant praise that Williams has received from a number of current and former players, the young quarterback has a lot to prove when his stint with the Bears officially begins in September.
Fortunately for Williams, he already seems to be winning over his teammates, like tight end Cole Kmet, who seems to think the team’s new starting quarterback is a humble and normal guy via SiriusXM NFL Radio.
Along with the Bears being featured on the next season of HBO’s Hard Knocks, where everyone will get a behind-the-scenes look at the rookie quarterback and will likely start to receive a fair amount of criticism, few players in the league will be under more pressure than the 22-year-old.
Only time will tell if the Bears got the real deal in Williams, as it will likely take a year or two before Chicago knows what they have with the young quarterback leading the way for the storied franchise.
When we last visited the Pro Football Focus top 32 individual linebacker rankings ahead of the 2024 seaosn, they had two Chicago Bears listed in their top half of the league, and we posed the question: Do the Chicago Bears have a top-10 linebacking unit?
The Bears were just one of eleven teams to feature two players on their list, so the odds were good that the eleventh-ranked Tremaine Edmunds and the ninth-ranked T.J. Edwards brought enough to the table that Chicago’s linebacking corps was top ten.
PFF’s latest ranking series is by position group, and they not only have the Bears linebackers in the top ten, but they have them all the way up at number three.
Still no mention of strong-side linebacker Jack Sanborn, but PFF graded Sanborn higher than they did Edmunds (67.3 to 56.6) in 2023, which was the fifth-highest defensive grade on the team. He’s an instinctual player who filled in at the Mike last year for the two games Edmunds missed.
Second-year pro Noah Sewell is the next linebacker up if one of the starters goes down, and the Bears signed 25-year-old Amen Ogbongbemiga as a reserve to be a core special teamer.
