A transparent path has lastly been set for Caleb Williams, the favourite to land with the Chicago Bears, after GM Ryan Poles traded Justin Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend.
However one former excessive draft choose believes Williams ought to contemplate holding out on them and pulling an “Eli Manning” when the 2024 NFL Draft comes up subsequent month.
Robert Griffin III thinks Williams ought to do what Manning did forward of the 2004 NFL Draft, when he instructed the San Diego Chargers he wouldn’t signal with them, which in the end led to a commerce with the New York Giants.
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Caleb Williams #QB14 of Southern California smiles whereas sporting “Draft Me” sun shades in the course of the NFL Mix on the Indiana Conference Heart on March 2, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Pictures)
Though the inspiration has been laid for Williams, particularly with Poles buying and selling for Chargers extensive receiver Keenan Allen and signing working again D’Andre Swift so as to add extra playmakers on offense, Griffin defined his reasoning.
“After everything that’s happened with just Justin Fields, can Caleb Williams really look at that and say, ‘You know what? This is the organization that has my best interests at heart, and they’re going to help develop me into the player I want to become,’” Griffin mentioned in a video posted to his X account.
“Caleb Williams is on record saying that he wants to be legendary, he wants to rewrite history, and he wants to be the best he can possibly be and win the most games he can possibly win.”
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After all, there’s no assure that the additions Poles made to the staff, together with a possible choose of Williams, will result in a fast turnaround for the Bears. Nevertheless, groups that do choose on the prime of the NFL Draft are often within the rebuilding levels.
Poles and the remainder of the Bears’ group felt they wanted a reset at quarterback. Fields performed three seasons with the staff, however he owns only a 10-28 file as a starter. The staff’s struggles can’t be pinned on Fields, although, because the roster had holes throughout on either side of the ball.
Chicago, seeing an opportunity to alter their fortunes, particularly with a rookie quarterback contract at first total, makes a variety of sense for the group.
However Griffin feels in any other case, saying that Williams has the identical energy now that Manning had popping out of Ole Miss in 2004.
Robert Griffin III, former NFL quarterback and TV Analyst for ESPN, appears to be like on in the course of the first half of a sport between the Florida State Seminoles and the Syracuse Orange at Doak Campbell Stadium on October 14, 2023 in Tallahassee, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty Pictures)
“Don’t get me wrong. Hey, hand the football off to D’Andre Swift, throwing the ball to Keenan Allen and D.J. Moore and Cole Kmet — those guys are phenomenal. This ain’t anything about them. This is about Caleb Williams and what team out there gives him the best chance to be successful. Only he can deem that,” Griffin defined.
The place does Griffin need to see Williams go as an alternative of Chicago? The staff he was taken by in 2012.
“I do think him going back to Washington, where he’s from… I think that’s the best spot for him. But he has to answer that question.
“He does have energy proper now, and he ought to train it if he looks like Chicago will not be the place he ought to be.”
Williams has been considered by many to be a generational talent, and that’s usually someone teams don’t want to pass on. Other top quarterbacks in the draft include Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye and J.J. McCarthy, but Williams has been projected to go first overall over all of them.
ESPN NFL analyst Robert Griffin III smiles in the green room backstage during the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft at Union Station on April 27, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
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The pathway has been cleared to do so, but there’s still over a month until the Bears can make that official.
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