'Probably not right now' was Ben Johnson's response when asked if Bears QB Caleb Williams resembles Aaron Rodgers.
“Probably not right now," Johnson said in an honest assessment. " elite right now at getting the ball out of his hands. If he doesn't have the fastest snap-to-throw time in the league right now, he's got to be close.
"He's doing a really good job spitting it out. He's accurate, I think our guy's the same way, but we probably holds onto it a little bit more just where we are in the offense. We're learning and we're growing, I think we'll gravitate more towards getting it out faster the more reps we have." Actually, Rodgers is getting it out of his hand faster than any quarterback in the NFL according to NFL Next Gen stats, at 2.59 seconds average time to throw.It's here where they need to start working most with Williams, although as long as he holds the ball on those magical spins out of the pocket to avoid sacks they might want to rethink that. Caleb Williams on Aaron Rodgers and if he hopes he plays Sunday “yeah you always want to go against their best out there”Regardless, Williams could use some of Rodgers' fundamentally sound passing precision and accuracy. Williams' completion percentage has plummeted to 59.7% . That's almost 3 points lower than during his rookie year.Rodgers is at 66.4% completions , although his yards per attempt have taken a dip to 6.8. This can happen when you're getting the ball out of your hand too fast.“There’s probably only a couple of quarterbacks in the world that have been able to spin the ball the way that he does," Williams said of Rodgers. "Growing up as a kid, when you find and realize how hard it is to play this position you admire some of the things he's been able to do over the long career he has had.""You always want their best out there," Williams said. "He's one of the best in the world, and he's been one of the best in the world for however long he's been in the league. "You always want to go verse the best when you play. I’ll hopefully get to say what's up to him, shake his hand after.”“You see guys week in and week out having trouble taking this guy down” 👀GENE CHAMBERLAIN Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.
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