Bears QB Caleb Williams knows this is the time of year to fail — but time is running out
<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> quarterback Caleb Williams figures now is the time to fail.</p><p></p><p>Time, though, is running short.</p><p></p><p>The Bears already have more <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/11/bears-training-camp-report-day-12-dandre-swift-shines-scrimmage-roschon-johnson-nfl" target="_blank" >training camp practices</a> in their rearview mirror than they have in front of them. The first preseason game looms Saturday — though it’d be surprising if starters play relevant snaps — with Week 1 four-and-a-half-weeks in the future.</p><p></p><p>There won’t be many more opportunities for Williams to do what he did Tuesday afternoon — face players in full pads chasing him.
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<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> quarterback Caleb Williams figures now is the time to fail.</p><p></p><p>Time, though, is running short.</p><p></p><p>The Bears already have more <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/11/bears-training-camp-report-day-12-dandre-swift-shines-scrimmage-roschon-johnson-nfl" target="_blank" >training camp practices</a> in their rearview mirror than they have in front of them. The first preseason game looms Saturday — though it’d be surprising if starters play relevant snaps — with Week 1 four-and-a-half-weeks in the future.</p><p></p><p>There won’t be many more opportunities for Williams to do what he did Tuesday afternoon — face players in full pads chasing him. Williams was promising in the Bears’ scrimmage on the Halas Hall backfields, at one point covering 80 yards in two plays on throws to receivers Rome Odunze and Scotty Miller after being backed up on his 1-yard line.</p><p></p><p>He still needs to be more accurate — he led both Kalif Raymond and Colston Loveland too far on pass attempts earlier in practice — but appeared to break out of the stagnancy he showed during the second week of training camp.</p><p></p><p>For all the attention given him this offseason — “Madden 27,” whose cover he graces, will be released Thursday — Williams still needs to grow considerably to get to where the Bears want him to be. That growth needs to happen on the backfields at Halas Hall.
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- <p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears" target="_blank" >Bears</a> quarterback Caleb Williams figures now is the time to fail.</p><p></p><p>Time, though, is running short.</p><p></p><p>The Bears already have more <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/08/11/bears-training-camp-report-day-12-dandre-swift-shines-scrimmage-roschon-johnson-nfl" target="_blank" >training camp practices</a> in their rearview mirror than they have in front of them. The first preseason game looms Saturday — though it’d be surprising if starters play relevant snaps — with Week 1 four-and-a-half-weeks in the future.</p><p></p><p>There won’t be many more opportunities for Williams to do what he did Tuesday afternoon — face players in full pads chasing him.
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