Bears News: Williams reacts to winning NFC Offensive Player of the Week, turns focus to Raiders

Ariana Pensy · Correspondent · 3 hours ago

CHICAGO - It is hard not to love your quarterback when he wins the city of Chicago free hot dogs, especially when he also wins NFC Offensive Player of the Week for how well he performed.

While this is an accolade quarterback Caleb Williams did not receive as a rookie, he is also incredibly humble.

Instead of basking in the glory, Williams is more concerned about building Chicago’s momentum with a victory against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sun. Sept. 28 (3:25 p.m. / CBS).

“It’s time to move on and focus on the Raiders and obviously, we got a tall task at hand with (defensive end Maxx Crosby) and those defensive players and obviously that explosive offense and guys on the special teams,” Williams said. “So, we got a tall task at hand. Every week is important and every game, every moment and that was a good moment we had on Sunday and it’s time to move on to (the) Raiders.”

The first two weeks of the season were rough for Chicago fans after seeing the Bears plagued by the same issues as last season - pre-snap penalties, inaccurate passes, the offensive line breaking down, an inadequate run game. Most of these things were not present in the Bears’ 17-point victory over the Dallas Cowboys in week three.

There were also noticeable improvements from Williams, specifically. He is generally more accurate, finding the open receiver, took some shots downfield against Dallas and is using his feet more to move around in the pocket while also using his athleticism to scramble.

For Williams, it comes down to the little things - being consistent with his footwork, seeing things pre-snap and getting the ball to his playmakers.

“Just the consistency with my footwork, keeping me on rhythm, and then other than that, just getting to the line, getting the guys out of the huddle, being able to make checks or alerts or whatever the case may be. I think those have been the things that (have) been building confidence for myself and everybody else on offense,” Williams said. “Just getting the ball into my playmaker’s hands, spreading the ball around and being efficient with the ball and being able to score with every drive that we can.”

There are a lot of things to adjust to when you are a rookie.

But now that Williams has a year under his belt and a coaching staff that supports his learning and development, he has developed more maturity and learned how to give himself a little grace during the week as opposed to constantly seeking perfection immediately.

“I think there’s a certain part where you (start) getting a better understanding of the offense and we’re trying to do and I think the consistency of just taking a step each week and trying to be positive. There’s going to be hard moments in practice, like (Wednesday),” Williams said. “Just being able to be positive, being able to understand that it is Wednesday and a bunch of it is new and not get too frustrated and give myself a little grace on Wednesdays to be able to understand that I’ll go back, study (Wednesday night), study (Thursday) and keep studying throughout the week and then we’ll get to Sunday and be able to rep it and get out there and call those plays and be efficient and do whatever we need to do to win a game.”