Caleb Williams Urged Not to Play for Bears

Analysis: RG III somehow believes Bears treatment of Justin Fields warrants a refusal by Caleb Willams to play in Chicago.

One of the great fears about Caleb Williams is being stoked like a burnt out log in a fireplace.

It could be one of the most silly opinions on the potential first Bears pick being voiced to date.

After the Justin Fields trade, former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III is telling Williams he should do what Eli Manning did and find a way to not go to the team drafting him.

RG III reasons the Bears somehow did Fields wrong and Williams should decide he doesn't want to be part of going to Chicago as a result.

"Caleb Williams should pull a Eli Manning and demand that the Chicago Bears do not draft him No. 1 overall," RGIII said on his podcast.

The comments RGIII made are so wrong and uninformed that they're comical, and this doesn't even include the fact Williams incorrectly pronounced Matt Eberflus' name.

The Bears GM did Fields a great favor by sending him to a team of his choosing when, according to an ESPN report, there were other teams interested and one willing to give more than the Bears got from the Steelers.

Somewhat vague by his incomprehensible report, it seems RG III thinks the Bears were responsible for Fields' failures in Chicago. There is a case to be made for some of this but the people most responsible are no longer in charge. That was Matt Nagy, his staff and Ryan Pace.

"After the Bears took Justin Fields, the 11th pick in the draft and turned him into a sixth round pick in the 2025 draft by trading to the Pittsburgh Steelers, can Caleb Williams really look at that and say 'you know what, yeah, this organization is going to get me to where I want to go?' I don't think it's saying that," RGIII said.

Caleb Williams should pull an Eli Manning and tell the Chicago Bears I AIN’T COMING. pic.twitter.com/g9Mx1cggsA

— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) March 18, 2024

The organization in place now gave Fields every opportunity a quarterback would get with a rebuilding team and wasn't the same organization that drafted Fields and was largely responsible for how he broke into the league.

If he had been watching closely, RGIII would realize the rest of the NFL had determined how good Fields was with the marketplace. A conditional sixth-round pick isn't much compensation. In the end, it didn't hurt Fields any and probably helped him. The Bears weren't going to pick up his fifth-year option after his inability to function in fourth quarters.

Poles has already addressed this idea that Williams would decide he wasn't going to play for the team owning the draft's first pick.

"No, no concerns about that at all," Poles said at the combine. "I would love to know why, if that was the case.

"Like I said I think, as a young quarterback, I've been around it, infrastructure is important. And I think we've made really good progress in terms of having really good infrastructre for whowever were to come in (at QB) or if Justin were to stay."

Fields obviously is not staying now.

A 10-28 record as starter rates among the worst ever for a starting QB in the league and the Bears only had the worst roster in the league supporting him for one of Fields' three seasons.

He had plenty of opportunities to show what he could do and didn't get it done, then exited with class, much the way Poles showed class in going fa beyond what could be expected in finding him a new team.

The only one not exhibiting class in this is RGIII but his motive is obvious and is apparent later in his rant.

"Yes I do think him going back to washington where he's from, he's a DC kid, went to Gonzaga College High School, OK, I think that's the best spot for him," RG III said.

Apparently this is all just about RGIII looking out for his own old team, Washington, and getting a hometown hero with the Commanders.

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