Bears draft QB Caleb Williams with No. 1 pick

Williams was generally viewed as the top possibility in a draft class stacked with gifted quarterbacks. The 6-1, 215-pounder showed up in 37 school games with 33 begins more than three seasons at Oklahoma (2021) and USC (2022-23), finishing 66.9% of his passes for 9,782 yards with 93 scores and 14 captures and scrambling for 966 yards and 27 TDs on 289 conveys.

Williams won the Heisman Prize as a sophomore at USC in 2022, passing for 4,537 yards with 42 TDs and five captures and scrambling for 382 yards and 10 TDs on 113 endeavors. He additionally won the Maxwell Grant and the Walter Camp Honor as school football's top player and was named AP School Football Player of the Year and Donning News Player of the Year.

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Last year the Washington, D.C. local tossed for 3,333 yards with 30 TDs and five captures and scrambled for 142 yards and 11 TDs on 97 endeavors.

The Bears chosen Williams with a pick they got in last year's exchange with the Pumas. The Bears managed the No. 1 choice in the 2023 draft to Carolina in return for recipient DJ Moore, 2023 first-and second-round picks, a 2024 first-round determination that ended up being No. 1 by and large and a 2025 second-round decision.

While Ryan Posts watched long periods of tape on Williams and the other top quarterbacks in the draft, the Bears senior supervisor told journalists in late February that he expected to get to realize them better as individuals during consolidate interviews, genius day exercises and top 30 visits to Halas Corridor.

"The individual is an enormous piece of it," Shafts said at that point, repeating remarks he had made in his finish of-season public interview. "I've discussed that a ton. What's the cosmetics? The initiative? How would they deal with pressure? How would they deal with tension in a major city like our own? A great deal of those elements go in.

"It's experience on task and only sort of getting to know the character. There's been a lot of data gathering from my group simply as far as partners, mentors, that's what things like, yet you must invest energy with someone else to grasp their wiring."

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"At the point when you converse with his partners, they could do without him, they love him," Posts said. "His initiative, how he unites individuals, he's purposeful with his authority. Same goes with the staff. I'm struggling with finding an individual that could do without him or even love him and figures that he can arrive at the most noteworthy cutoff points. The input's been great."

Bears GM Ryan Posts on QB Caleb Williams

Requested an illustration of Williams' administration, Posts said: "We search for folks that can bring others around. There's advantages and disadvantages in this Nothing arrangement, however the cool thing is you really do have a few assets to take your O-line out to supper. You see the Christmas presents that the NFL folks do. So truly uniting those folks, investing that energy, making that bond is truly the thing you're searching for there, and that's what he's done."

Photographs: Bears draft QB Caleb Williams

With the main pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Bears select USC quarterback Caleb Williams. Investigate photographs of Williams in real life. (Photographs through AP)

Before Williams' Expert Day Walk 20 in Los Angeles, he ate with a huge Bears contingent that included Shafts, collaborator senior supervisor Ian Cunningham, mentor Matt Eberflus, hostile organizer Shane Waldron, quarterbacks mentor Kerry Joseph, passing game facilitator Thomas Brown and some USC recipients.

 Williams is "truly experienced."

"One of my folks sort of knock me on it, which I believe is uncommon these days for a 22-year-old: he never contacted his telephone," Posts said. "Truly purposeful with his discussions and discussing his inclinations and things that he gets a kick out of the chance to do."

"Simply one more touchpoint," Posts said. "I've done this over the course of the years when folks come in, you can truly do a few establishments, enjoy some time off, and afterward have them reinstall back to you simply with regards to review. Assemble associations with mentors. Ensure that there's similarity there."

During his visit to Chicago, Williams ate with a gathering of Bears veterans that supposedly included DJ Moore, Cole Kmet and T.J. Edwards. Gotten some information about the feeling that Williams made on the players, Posts said: "Truly savvy fellow. Seemed to be a great colleague, simple to converse with, practical."

"He's all ball, needs to work, needs to improve, needs to win collectively," Shafts said. "That is the No. 1 thing for him on top of finding success. The greatest thing is, 'Does he fit in our way of life and what we're attempting to do?' And all signs were that he does, so that was positive."

During a new appearance on "The Turn Digital broadcast," Williams was asked by co-have Ryan Clark about joining the Bears.

"I need to play in one spot for a considerable length of time, and pursue one person, No. 12 (Tom Brady)," Williams said. "I need a spot that loves ball. That is all I've caught wind of Chicago up to this point, which is energizing for me."

Expecting to pursue an unequaled incredible quarterback who has won seven Super Dishes is surely a grandiose objective for an approaching freshman. In any case, Shafts is fine with pointing that high.

"I love it," Posts said. "We as a whole ought to have gigantic objectives. We have tremendous objectives here; bring home numerous titles, and that is the very thing that we go for. You're more deliberate when you have these objectives. You need to carry on with a specific way; you need to rehearse a specific way to achieve those. On the off chance that all the other things is in line under that, that gets me energized.