USC Football: Caleb Williams Details Unorthodox NFL Draft Prep

How Williams is getting ready for the draft.

With the NFL Scouting Combine beginning this week, Caleb Williams has been preparing for the 2024 NFL Draft. Though Williams will not be working out at the combine — he will instead do so at USC's Pro Day on March 20 — he is naturally getting ready for the draft preparation. 

Williams detailed what his preparation has looked like in a recent interview.

"We're shooting for the stars and trying to nitpick the small things," he said. "They become big things in a long season. There's nothing really that we're not working on. ... I am a perfectionist, and I want to be perfect. In reality you can't."

— Caleb Williams, via

ESPN's Pete Thamel.

The former Heisman Trophy winner also touched on how he's feeling heading into the draft and his rookie NFL season. 

"It's not anxiousness or anything like that. I can't wait to say my first cadence. Regardless of how good or bad, with me switching up the play-call, messing up or not messing it up in practice. Whatever the case may be. I can't wait for that moment, that minicamp moment."

— Caleb Williams, via

ESPN's Pete Thamel.

These are the kinds of responses and insights that should appeal to NFL teams. For Williams to be that excited about his cadence and getting to work in minicamp is a reflection of how he's approaching the game and his entrance into the NFL. 

Beyond skill, a player's love for the game and work ethic are some of the primary qualities that scouts and general managers are seeking in their interviews during the NFL combine.

If Williams is showing this off in interviews, it should only make his draft stock rise more, if that's even possible for the projected top-three pick.