{"id":235270,"date":"2025-10-19T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235270\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:50:07","slug":"caleb-williams-is-on-pace-to-become-the-bears-first-4000-yard-passer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235270\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Williams is on pace to become the Bears&#8217; first 4,000-yard passer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears haven\u2019t had a true franchise quarterback since Sid Luckman. They possibly have one in Caleb Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Through five games, Williams has 1,179 receiving yards. That\u2019s 235.8 per game. Multiplied that by 17 (carry the one), that projects to 4,008 yards.<\/p>\n<p>If Williams gets there, he\u2019ll be the first quarterback in Bears franchise history to throw for 4,000 or more yards in a season.<\/p>\n<p>The current single-season leader for Chicago isn\u2019t Jay Cutler but Erik Kramer. In 1995, Kramer threw for 3,838 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears are the only team to never have a 4,000-yard passer. It has happened 233 times in NFL history. The first player to do it was Joe Namath, who threw for 4,007 yards with the Jets in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears haven\u2019t had a true franchise quarterback since Sid Luckman. They possibly have one in Caleb Williams.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-235270","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\/235270","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=235270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}