CHICAGO – All right, fine, we’ll kick it off here with the requisite caveat that no one wants to hear:
It’s early.
Yeah, yeah.
The Bears’ Caleb Williams has played nine NFL games. The Patriots’ Drake Maye has played six, starting five. Their careers as professional quarterbacks are still in the first few paragraphs of the first page of the opening chapter.
We know this, of course. We remember when they were drafted all of seven months ago. So if you don’t mind, allow me to drop kick this caveat right out of the stadium.