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Caleb Williams' preseason debut was a confirmation: This Bears QB is good.

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You can say that NFL preseason games don’t mean a lot, and you won’t get much of an argument here or anywhere, other than in a coach’s darkened film room.

But even though exhibition games don’t solve the world’s problems, they can tell you things you already know, good and bad. They can reaffirm.

Caleb Williams’ sizable abilities were on display Saturday in his preseason debut as a Chicago Bear. If he wasn’t everything the team and its fans had hoped for, he was a lot of it.