Carmen Vitali
NFC North Reporter
It’s graduation time and we’ve got caps and gowns and yearbooks on the brain. So did the Chicago Bears when they released their 2024 schedule.
While students are getting ready to graduate, NFL teams will be concluding their offseason programs in a couple of weeks and graduating to next season, officially. As such, I’ve compiled a list of superlatives you’ll see in any high school yearbook, only I applied them to the NFC North class of NFL High.
There have been some tweaks and adjustments made to fit more of the football vernacular, but I think you’ll find this mix headlining the 2024 season across the division in some form or fashion.
Most Likely to Succeed: QB Caleb Williams, Chicago Bears
This is straight out of the yearbook and how could it not be? Williams has been put in perhaps the best situation a quarterback taken first overall has ever been put in. He has an arsenal of receiving weapons now with D.J. Moore, Keenan Allen and ninth overall pick Rome Odunze. Add in a running back by committee that’s headlined by D’Andre Swift, a tight end room that includes Cole Kmet and now Gerald Everett, along with an offensive line that has been infused with some veteran talent, and Chicago has themselves a great situation to develop a quarterback. They also got offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, who was the architect behind Geno Smith’s resurgence in Seattle.
Under Waldron in 2022, Smith led the league in completion percentage and had a 78.8 percent on-target rate. He threw for 4,282 yards and 30 touchdowns against just 11 interceptions and earned himself a Pro Bowl nod on the way to Comeback Player of the Year honors. He followed that campaign up with his second-straight Pro Bowl selection in 2023, passing for 3,634 yards, 20 touchdowns and just nine interceptions in 15 games started.
Can we expect the same from Williams? Maybe not right away given that he’s a rookie, but that…
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Publish date : 2024-05-29 17:38:44
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