If you’re a Chicago Bears fan, it’s easy to get excited about the potential future with Caleb Williams. The No. 1 pick has already broken a major Bears rookie record and is doing intelligent things like measuring the wind at Soldier Field. For a guy with just five starts, he’s everything Bears fans could’ve hoped for to this point.
But the next time you go to your local Costco in the Chicagoland area looking for some Williams-related swag, you might want to examine what you’re buying very, very closely. According to the Twitter account Six Points Sports (@SixPointSports), a Chicago-area Costco is selling a teammate wall art sign featuring Williams and his No. 1 receiver, D.J. Moore.
There’s just one problem.
If you look closely at the Bears player wearing an 18 jersey on the sign, it’s not actually Williams. Not even close. It’s former Bears first-round pick Justin Fields … with an “8” doctored onto his jersey. Come on, man:
https://twitter.com/sixpointsports/status/1844247555879874968?s=46
I don’t know whose idea this sign was, but it’s the definition of brazen laziness. It’s almost certainly hoping someone who doesn’t follow the Bears closely — and, as such, likely doesn’t actually know what Williams looks like aside from the fact that he wears an “18” jersey — makes a mistake and buys it as a gift for a diehard fan in their life.
What a brutal look for whichever Chicago Costco tried this.