This article compares the playing styles and early NFL careers of Caleb Williams and Patrick Mahomes. While Mahomes boasts a stronger arm, Williams excels in rushing and accuracy. The article analyzes the challenges Williams faced in his rookie season, including a subpar offensive line and inconsistent play-calling, and suggests that with improvements in these areas, he has the potential to significantly improve his statistical performance in year two.
Throughout Caleb Williams' tenure at USC, NFL scribes were enamored with the gun-slinging field general, so much so that they often mentioned him in the same breath as the Kansas City Chiefs' two-time MVP, three-time Super Bowl winner, and future Hall of Famer Patrick Mahomes., “Mahomes is the best in the world at manipulating pockets to give himself space to either throw or take off and run, and Williams shows that ability on a near-down-to-down basis.".
Your knee-jerk reaction to the back-in-the-day scouting reports is probably something along the lines of, “Man, the pundits blew that.”Mahomes was able to, in effect, red-shirt his rookie season and study the Chiefs' veteran incumbent signal caller Alex Smith, whereas Williams, in his rookie season with the Chicago Bears, was thrown into the deep end and named starter before training camp.
Flash takeaway: Mahomes wins big in the arm department, while Williams takes the edge in rushing and accuracy.Little surprise that the passing numbers across the board favor Mahomes, as he was playing behind an offensive line anchored by an All-Pro tackle in Mitchell Schwartz, while Williams’ O-line was a rotating cast of underachievers that PFF cited as the ninth-worst unit in the league.
Another hurdle that impeded Williams’ passing season: He was trapped in schemes drawn up by Shane Waldron and Thomas Brown , while Mahomes was blessed with a playbook courtesy of Andy Reid, a mustachioed offensive genius who currently has more regular season wins than all but three head coaches in NFL history .Mahomes took some statistical steps backwards in his second full-time season behind center, throwing for 24 fewer touchdowns and over 1,000 less yards.
As for Caleb, what with an innovative offensive-minded head coach in Ben Johnson and an improved O-line , Williams will likely be in a far better position to succeed in his year-two as a starter. And if he does indeed take a huge statistical leap—hey,Alan Goldsher has written about sports for Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Apple, Playboy, NFL.com, and NBA.com, and he’s the creator of the Chicago Sports Stuff Substack. He’s the bestselling author of 15 books, and the founder/CEO of Gold Note Records.
CALEB WILLIAMS PATRICK MAHOMES NFL QUARTERBACK ROOKIE SEASON
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