Caleb Williams

No. 18 · 3rd season

Caleb Williams said his first year felt like drowning. Year two feels different.

There is a version of being the first pick in the draft that nobody talks about in the highlight packages. It is sitting in a meeting room trying to absorb an entirely new offense while the whole country watches and waits.

Caleb Williams was that person last year. He has said the process of learning the system felt like drowning — not struggling, not adjusting. Drowning. That is a specific word from a person who chose it carefully.

Now Ben Johnson is running the offense in Chicago, and Williams says year two is significantly more enjoyable than year one. Not a little better. Significantly.

That gap — between drowning and enjoying it — is where quarterbacks either become what people believed they could be or quietly become a cautionary tale. Williams is telling us, plainly, which direction he thinks he is heading.

The question is whether the field confirms it.

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