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Bears coach Matt Eberflus announced Tuesday that rookie quarterback Caleb Williams will not play in the preseason finale against the Chiefs on Thursday night at Arrowhead Stadium, tacitly declaring Williams good to go for the season opener against the Titans on Sept. 8 at Soldier Field.
And that was that.
The Williams story has just begun to unfold, of course. But the matter-of-fact and expected nature of Tuesday’s announcement was a significant change from previous seasons, when the preparedness of Justin Fields and Mitch Trubisky was a hearty debate at this point of the preseason.