Chicago Bears need Caleb Williams to check next big box

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has made major strides in the past eight games, let alone from where his rookie season ended, back in January.

Over the past month, in particular, Williams has seemed more comfortable in head coach Ben Johnson’s system, more eager to take off and make plays with his legs, and has become a driving force of the Bears’ offense coming to life.

As the schedule gets more difficult, though, especially beginning Sunday in a pivotal NFC North clash in Minnesota against the Vikings, the Bears are going to need to see Williams take a big leap even from the quarterback that he has shown to be through the season’s first half.

Chicago Bears need Caleb Williams to be more consistent

Williams has been a catalyst to the Bears winning five of the past six games, four of which in come from behind fashion.

Since being chosen No. 1 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft, Williams has led six comeback wins for the Bears.

However, NFL analyst Nick Shook argues that in order for this Bears team to reach its potential and be able to make a postseason run, Chicago needs the Williams who steps off the sideline in the fourth quarter to be the one that runs out of the tunnel to begin the game.

“Caleb Williams is wildly entertaining,” Shook writes for NFL Media. “When the Bears’ backs are against the wall and they need their quarterback to push them to victory. He did it again in a frantic fourth-quarter comeback against the Giants, scrambling for 29 yards to set up a touchdown pass to Rome Odunze and later ripping off a game-winning rushing score. The next goal for Williams: Do the same thing consistently for four quarters.”

Williams is on pace to become the Bears’ first quarterback in franchise history to surpass 4,000 passing yards in a season, and is completing 60.8 percent of his passes for 2,136 yards with 13 touchdowns to four interceptions, so far this season.

However, four of those passing touchdowns have come in the fourth quarter of games so far this season, as have 578 of his passing yards, which is second best only to his first quarters where he’s thrown for 615 with three touchdowns to two interceptions.

The Bears might need Williams to put together a complete game against Brian Flores’ Vikings defense, in Minnesota on Sunday, but if he does, it could be an encouraging harbinger of things to come for Chicago.

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