{"id":77713,"date":"2025-08-18T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:31:07","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-to-bears-qb-caleb-williams-hot-start-vs-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77713\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts to Bears QB Caleb Williams&#8217; hot start vs. Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> quarterback Caleb Williams made his preseason debut during Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Buffalo Bills, and his first live-game action under new head coach Ben Johnson didn&#8217;t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Williams led the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears<\/a> on a seven-play, 92-yard scoring drive that culminated in a 36-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus. On that first series, Williams completed 5-of-6 passes for 97 yards with a touchdown and a perfect 158.3 passer rating.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The second series wasn&#8217;t as successful, ending in a punt after wide receiver Rome Odunze failed to haul in a pass on third down, but Williams&#8217; night was an overall productive one. Williams completed 6-of-10 passes for 107 yards, one touchdown and a 130.0 passer rating. But, most importantly, he looked comfortable, decisive and sharp in his first live action since Johnson took over.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, there was plenty of reaction to Williams&#8217; preseason performance, including some overreaction and plenty of reasonable praise for the second-year QB&#8217;s impressive start.<\/p>\n<p>NFL world reacts to Bears QB Caleb Williams&#8217; hot start<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2025\/08\/17\/bears-caleb-williams-performance-vs-bills-reaction\/85703591007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears vs. Bills: NFL world reacts to Caleb Williams&#039; hot start;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears vs. Bills: NFL world reacts to Caleb Williams&#8217; hot start<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams made his preseason debut during Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Buffalo Bills, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[3165,1748,49,1755,48,1735,47292,2221,47289,514,47290,2218,47291,33512,82,39314],"class_list":{"0":"post-77713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ben-johnson","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-caleb-williams","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-clay-harbor","15":"tag-drake-maye","16":"tag-josiah-johnson","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olamide-zaccheaus","19":"tag-patrick-mahomes","20":"tag-robert-griffin-iii","21":"tag-rome-odunze","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-tyson-bagent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}