Caleb Williams responded to excerpts from an upcoming book that reported he attempted to avoid being drafted by the Chicago Bears.
Williams said that after he visited the Bears in April 2024 (following a visit with the Minnesota Vikings, a team the book revealed was Williams\' preferred destination), his desire to come to Chicago was strengthened.
\"I wanted to come here and be the guy and be a part and be a reason why the Chicago Bears turn this thing around,\" Williams said. \"That last thing that was said in all of that I think is the most important thing is that I wanted to be here. I love being here.\"
His father, however, told Wickersham that he believed \"Chicago is the place quarterbacks go to die.\" Williams said he appreciates the support and guidance he receives from his father, but that Carl Williams does not speak for him.
\"Actually, I shut my dad down quite a bit,\" Caleb Williams said. \"He has ideas and he\'s a smart man and so I listen, I always listen. I\'m very fortunate to be in this position in the sense of playing quarterback but also very fortunate to have a very strong-minded father. We talk very often, my mom and my dad are my best friends, so being able to have conversations with them to understand that everything they say is also portrayed on me.
\"He cares so much about me and my future, and we have been along this journey so long together, all he wants is the best for me. So, if anything happens and he\'s super hotheaded and it\'s more of like \'All right, go ahead and go away. Go reset.\' Things like that. Love him to death and things like that, super fortunate to have him. We have talked about it. Understanding that there\'s a right place and a right time and there are times that there is not.\"