Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby made life tough for Bears quarterback Caleb Williams on Sunday: Crosby tipped three of Williams\u2019 passes, once intercepted Williams, once hit Williams as he was passing, and once forced Williams to fumble.<\/p>\n
The Bears managed to win anyway, but Williams came away from the game in awe of how good an opponent Crosby is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got a hell of a player over there,\u201d Williams said of Crosby. \u201cHe\u2019s probably the best player I\u2019ve played against so far in my career. They\u2019ve got a hell of a player.\u201d <\/p>\n
Crosby said on his podcast that he was honored to have that kind of respect from an opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cHearing that from a really good player is cool,\u201d Crosby said. \u2018Our matchup was all day — all day we were going back and forth, and he\u2019s a competitor, I\u2019ll give it to him. He didn\u2019t back down, he kept getting back up, kept making plays. He definitely has my respect. He is hard to tackle. He makes plays happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams did make it happen with a long drive in the game\u2019s final minutes that gave the Bears a 25-24 win over the Raiders. But Williams knows the best player on the field was on the losing team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby made life tough for Bears quarterback Caleb Williams on Sunday: Crosby tipped three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-201506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}