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THE FINALE!! Rookie Variability So far in this series, we’ve seen that Caleb Williams was generally a sub-par passer in his rookie season, and he particularly struggled with deep accuracy and letting too many pressures turn into sacks. One thing we haven’t given much thought to, however, is how much the inconsistency around him may have impacted his performance and … [Read more...] about Caleb’s Close-Up: Volume VII, Rookie Progression

General Overview Let’s start with a general look at how Williams performed against man and zone coverage in 2024. All data comes from Pro Football Focus (PFF) unless otherwise noted. Before we get into the data, a quick caveat: PFF doesn’t publicly show this data by QB, but instead by pass catcher. I manually compiled it team by team to do comparisons, but it doesn’t include … [Read more...] about Caleb’s Close-Up: Volume VI, Man Versus Zone

Under Pressure We’ve already seen that Caleb Williams was under pressure pretty frequently, so how did he hold up when that happened? The table below shows how Williams performed in a wide variety of statistics when kept clean (blue) vs. pressured (orange), and also includes Williams’ rank (in parentheses) out of 34 total NFL QBs who had at least 250 pass attempts. Information … [Read more...] about Caleb’s Close-Up: Volume V, Performance Under Pressure

Pressure Frequency As we already noted in the first part of this series, Caleb Williams was sacked 68 times this year, the highest value in the NFL by a wide margin. So today, I want to try and figure out who is to blame for that, which will help give insight into how the Bears can fix it going forward. The table below shows how frequently every position was blamed for giving … [Read more...] about Caleb’s Close-Up: Volume IV, Under Pressure