The Bears aren’t the best team in the NFL, but they’re the most fascinating.
They’re conducting a seemingly unprecedented experiment as No. 1 pick Caleb Williams joins a roster that already was trending toward a playoff berth, and general manager Ryan Poles has supplied everything he needs to chase his goal of having the best rookie season ever.
Not only is Williams considered a once-every-few-years talent, but rarely does a quarterback picked high in the draft end up in such a readymade situation. Usually they’re walking into total mess, as Justin Fields and Mitch Trubisky did when the Bears drafted them in the first round.