Chicago cornerback Jaylon Johnson has been with the Bears since they drafted him in 2020, and he\u2019s faced a lot of quarterbacks on the practice field during that time. Perhaps surprisingly, he doesn\u2019t necessarily view Caleb Williams as the best of those quarterbacks.<\/p>\n
In what might be considered damning with faint praise, Johnson talked up the Bears\u2019 offense when asked about training camp practices, but he suggested that Williams isn\u2019t the best Bears quarterback he\u2019s practiced against, just the best since Nick Foles was in Chicago during Johnson\u2019s first two seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, this is probably the best offense I\u2019ve had in seven years, as far as going against them, for sure. They\u2019ve got a lot of speed,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cCaleb\u2019s the best quarterback I\u2019ve had, again, since I feel like maybe Nick Foles, if you want to go back that far. Just as far as slinging it, I feel like he\u2019s definitely doing his thing, you can see the accuracy, you can see the confidence, throwing the ball in tight windows is something that\u2019s stood out to me. Top to bottom they\u2019re a confident group. They believe in each other, believe in what they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s what we need to go against on defense. They know what we\u2019re doing, they challenge us, we go after them, it\u2019s going to be a fun camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foles had some stellar moments in his NFL career, making the Pro Bowl in his first season as the Eagles\u2019 primary starter in 2013, and winning Super Bowl MVP for the Eagles after the 2017 season. But that\u2019s not the Foles Johnson practiced against. Johnson was comparing Williams to the Foles who spent two years in Chicago late in his career, primarily as a backup to Mitchell Trubisky, Andy Dalton and Justin Fields.<\/p>\n
That makes it a strange comparison. The Bears only won three games started by Foles during his two seasons as Johnson\u2019s teammate. The Bears won 11 games in the regular season and one in the playoffs last year. That apparently isn\u2019t enough for Johnson to declare Williams the best quarterback he\u2019s practiced against in Chicago, without exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago cornerback Jaylon Johnson has been with the Bears since they drafted him in 2020, and he\u2019s faced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-799393","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\/799393","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=799393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}