The Chicago Bears’ thought process before the NFL draft has not been clear. It is confusing more than anything else. It seems the Bears will keep the top pick and draft Caleb Williams, but there’s one reason picking Caleb doesn’t make sense.
We pointed this out weeks ago:
“The one thing preventing some people from assuming the Bears will take Caleb Williams is that the Bears have retained head coach Matt Eberflus. Doing so invites the possibility that Caleb will have two coaches in his first two seasons. If the Bears fail in Year 1 under Caleb, Eberflus will be gone by 2025. Chicago would have to hire a second coach for Caleb. That simply doesn’t make any sense.
“However, no one said the Bears were sensible.”
Drafting Caleb would have made a lot more sense if the Bears hired a new coach and fired Eberflus. Retaining Justin Fields’ coach, only to draft Caleb and send Fields to another team, just doesn’t seem rational on a lot of levels. Yet, it might very well happen and thereby shape the first stage of Caleb Williams’ professional career.
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