After a tumultuous 2024 season that saw the Bears cycle through 2 head coaches and 3 offensive coordinators while rookie QB Caleb Williams took an NFL-leading 68 sacks, the Chicago Bears spent the 2025 offseason setting up their young QB for success.
They brought in offensive whiz kid Ben Johnson as head coach, acquired veteran starters Joe Thuney, Drew Dalman, and Jonah Jackson for the interior OL, and spent high draft picks on TE Colston Loveland, WR Luther Burden, and OT Ozzy Trapilo.
For now, let’s start with a first look at Williams’ main efficiency stats, which you can view in the table below. Before I show the table, I want to briefly explain two of the all-encompassing metrics you might not be as familiar with:
To put each of these stats into context, Williams’ rank for each stat compared to 32 QBs with 250+ pass attempts in 2025 is shown in parentheses, with the best, average, and worst of those 32 players shown as well. Values in the top 25% are highlighted in green, while those in the bottom 25% are highlighted in red.
So that’s our first glance. Overall, Caleb Williams was probably somewhere around the 10th-12th best QB in the NFL, with clear strengths (producing explosive plays, avoiding negative ones) but clear weaknesses as well (consistency and accuracy).
Throughout the rest of this series, we’ll look more in-depth at specific parts of his game. Here’s what’s coming up in each article: