Chicago Bears’ Caleb Williams makes major admission about DJ Moore, season-ending interception

Wide receiver DJ Moore was among the Chicago Bears‘ most prolific weapons and one of Caleb Williams’ favorite targets throughout the 2025 season.

However, the Bears’ Super Bowl hopes and improbable, charmed postseason run came to a crashing end Sunday night when Williams was intercepted by Los Angeles Rams cornerback Kamren Curl, in overtime, on a ball that appeared badly underthrown, intended for Moore, but that the wide receiver seemed to cut off his route early on.

Chicago Bears’ Caleb Williams reveals what went wrong on season-ending INT

Monday, as the Bears were cleaning out their lockers from a season that ended three victories shy of what Chicago had hoped, Williams offered a clear revelation of what went wrong on the ill-fated throw.

“We haven’t,” Williams told reporters, when asked if he had the chance to speak with Moore about what happened on the throw. “All the stuff this morning, everybody’s been in different places with the exit meetings. But definitely something we’ll discuss, but we’ll discuss with the other wide receivers coming up in the future of next year, just getting on the same page in those moments.

“Small things like that that show up in those moments that you may not have talked about, being on the same page, maybe you talked about it in Week 1 or Week 6 and it shows up in Week 18 or whatever week we’re in. You know, it’s something to learn from for myself, a learning experience, it’s something for us to learn from as an offense and as a team. We’ll go do that at some time.”

Ultimately, the Rams drove into position to make a 42-yard game-winning field goal, off Williams’ interception, and the play will be one that stings in the Chicago region in the months ahead.

“It was just a miscommunication,” Williams admitted. “Trying to just flatten him off on the safety. Since the other safety was down, I felt like we had enough space over there so I tried to flatten him off. It was just a miscommunication. His route is to go deep and attack that angle, which he did. We thought we were going to go under the safety at that point. It didn’t happen that way.”

According to ESPN’s Courtney Cronin, Moore wasn’t present on locker cleanout day on Monday, or at least in the locker room for the portion that was open to reporters.

Clearly, Williams and Moore were not on the same page, in the biggest play of the Bears’ season, and figuring out how to get the quarterback and receiver in lockstep may need to be a top priority for Johnson and the coaching staff this offseason, because it sounds like the interception wasn’t the result of a poor play call but rather the result of festering miscommunications that pialed up as the season wore on.

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