The second-year Bears QB might make yet another sophomore leap in 2025—-and it might help you win some money and leagues.
Caleb Williams is getting ready to dominate for the most important squad in the league next year: your fantasy team.
Well, hopefully. And maybe he’ll play well for the Chicago Bears, too. I don’t know.
Anyway, if you’re interested in that sort of thing, Pro Football Focus’ Nathan Jahnke has the 2024 No. 1 pick slated as one of five players slated to have a breakout second season in fantasy.
This time, Jahnke explains, the hype surrounding Williams might finally come to fruition.
“Williams was drafted in fantasy drafts to be a borderline fantasy starter, which is unheard of for rookie quarterbacks unless there is tremendous rushing upside,” Jahnke wrote. “He ended up as QB16 on the season… but he had five games as a top-six fantasy quarterback.”
As far as rookie QBs go, there’s a lot to feel hopeful about when it comes to the flashes Williams showed last year. For one, he avoided the crippling turnovers that frequently plague first-year passers, going 354 pass attempts without throwing an interception at one point, which were NFL rookie and overall franchise records.
The problem: he didn’t throw enough touchdown passes to get the point totals up. While that wasn’t entirely on him, it held both the Bears’ offense and people’s fantasy teams back and led to a 22nd-place rank in points per game.
The Bears seem determined not to let the same mistakes that hurt the offense in 2024 mess up 2025, hiring Ben Johnson to coach the team and run the offense, retooling the offensive line, and drafting Colston Loveland and Luther Burden III to inject more explosiveness into the unit.
The major emphasis for the Bears: help Williams harness his playmaking superpowers consistently while keeping those turnover-worthy throws down. On paper, there’s no reason Williams can’t become the first QB in Bears history to throw for 4,000 yards and 40 TDs in a season this year.
And of course, if he can do that…it means Williams goes from matchup-dependent to every-week starter for your fantasy team and could put himself in the conversation as a top-10 scorer.
So, for those of you who are going to ask me if you should draft him a few months from now, refer back to this article and pull the trigger.