Caleb Williams wasn’t the only quarterback the Bears liked in the draft.
General manager Ryan Poles had his eye on several of them last fall, and during his end-of-season news conference in January, one reporter misinterpreted one of his comments as saying he had first-round grades on four.
“No, there’s more than that right now,” he clarified.
Indeed, the Bears had high enough opinions of multiple quarterbacks prospects to justify moving on from Justin Fields. But they never wavered on keeping the No. 1 pick and taking Williams, rather than trading down for what would’ve been a record-shattering haul and going with J.