Caleb Williams’ pre-training camp prep will be vital to QB, Bears’ hopes in 2024 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Caleb Williams checked every box in the first phase of the Bears’ detailed quarterback development plan.
Williams spent OTAs and mandatory minicamp immersing himself in the playbook, forming a connection with his teammates, and experimenting with his arm talent against a defense the Bears hope will be elite this fall.
With the final portion of OTAs ending Wednesday, Williams will now enter Phase 2 of the plan, which will ask him to focus on nailing down details that must be perfected by the time camp arrives.
“There is expectation there because that’s studying, that’s putting in the work even though it’s the downtime on that relentless pursuit of getting the edge and finding the edge,” offensive coordinator Shane Waldron said Wednesday of his summer plan for Williams. “And for him finding that edge going into training camp being better than he was when he left here today without the benefit of practices will be so much focused on the studying, the watching tape, and then throwing and working on his fundamentals.”
Williams’ focus must be on continuing to download the playbook so that he arrives at camp with a good sense of how he can best operate the offense on game day.
The Bears know that a Week 1 date with the Tennessee Titans will be here before they know it.
“I think for him it’s about continuing to own the system, the operation,” Waldron said. “With so many different things, you’re new to a system. … There’s a lot of similarities in so many different offensive systems, but they’re not all exactly the same. The ownership of what every word means, with the goal being when we come to training camp and I say a certain term that clicks in right now in Caleb’s brain, he knows exactly what we’re talking about. We’re on the same page.
“Because the further goal is game day when everything’s happening, it…
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Publish date : 2024-06-12 19:29:27
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