Caleb Williams is clearing the air.
On Thursday’s episode of “The Herd,” host Colin Cowherd stated that the USC quarterback, and presumptive prime decide within the 2024 NFL Draft, doesn’t need to find yourself on the Bears, who personal the No. 1 decide.
“I do assume it’s doable that Washington trades up and Chicago permits Washington to commerce up as a result of Caleb and his group don’t need to go to Chicago,” Cowherd stated.
Effectively, apparently phrase obtained again to the Williams camp, who pushed again in opposition to that report.
On Friday’s present, Cowherd mentioned what the QB’s group stated about his preliminary Bears reporting.
“I obtained a name yesterday from the Caleb Williams camp,” Cowherd stated Friday. “And so they went, ‘Whoa, whoa whoa. Colin, we don’t need to be painted as anti-Chicago. And we don’t need to be painted as anti-Bear.’
“And so they made it clear to me that they stated ‘Hear, we don’t need to go to a metropolis that doesn’t care. Chicago cares. They’re huge, loud, they’re passionate. They fireplace coaches on a regular basis. They care. We don’t need to go to some solar belt place that you just tarp off the higher deck.’”
Nonetheless, Cowherd appeared to double down on his unique report, going on 670 The Score in Chicago on Friday, and the FS1 host reiterated that Williams doesn’t need to go to the Bears.
“He doesn’t need to pull an Elway. In the event that they draft him, he’s going to go,” Cowherd stated.
John Elway was famously taken by the Colts first total within the 1983 NFL Draft, however refused to play for the membership, even threatening to affix the Yankees full-time as a substitute of taking part in for the then-Baltimore franchise.
Regardless of being picked by the Colts, Elway was finally dealt to the Broncos, with whom he started a legendary Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame profession.
Whereas Williams doesn’t have baseball to fall again on, the Bears are certainly in an fascinating place.
They nonetheless have quarterback Justin Fields — the No. 11 total decide within the 2021 NFL Draft — rostered, which has left them with lingering questions on his future.
He’s coming off a season by which he threw a career-best 2,562 yards to associate with 16 touchdowns and 657 dashing yards.
However Fields, who at occasions has flashed the gifted arm and legs he used at Ohio State, largely hasn’t lived as much as the first-round hype in his first three seasons because the Bears completed at 7-10 in 2023.
But when Chicago goes to commerce the incumbent signal-caller, Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer reported its within the workforce’s greatest curiosity to get a deal performed earlier than March, when the league’s 12 months begins.
The Bears have loads of work between now and April’s draft, and it stays to be seen who will likely be beginning underneath heart in Week 1 in September.