Fuck It, Caleb Williams Stats...
Michael Reaves. Getty Images.What a feeling watching the RedZone count down with your team already with a win in the bag. And even better for a SoCal transplant like myself getting up to watch a 6:30 game. Now I know how Jocko Willink feels after a morning workout. Same, same.
Nothing complicated about this blog. Just firing off some hype stats from the internet for #18 and a couple quick lookups of my own.
Get us started Tom!
This is mostly sad but a reminder that things are changing.
Keep it cooking!
OK here's some quick lookups of my own…
Caleb Williams is the quickest #1 overall drafted quarterback to throw four touchdowns in a game
Week 6 baby. And it would have been five touchdowns if Moore could have stretched that ball just a little bit. Or if Caleb didn't toss that dead duck INT. But who even remembers that? Running the numbers, I show Jim Plunkett in 1971 doing this in Week 9 of his rookie year as the quickest before today. Baker Mayfield did in Week 12, Andrew Luck in Week 13, and Drew Bledsoe in Week 18. Not bad company.
Caleb Williams had the 7th best completion percentage for any Bears QB in history (min 29 attempts)
I'm just going to focus on Caleb matching Sexy Rexy in the Super Bowl year on this one. That's all that matters.
4K passing yards is now a realistic goal
As it stands now, Caleb is on pace for 3,731.5 passing yards which trails only Kramer (3,838), Jay (3,812) and Rexy, (3,784) in franchise history. But let's have a little fun and skew some stats. He's averaged 262.5 over the past four weeks now that he's come into form. If he keeps this pace rest of season that puts him on track for 4,204 passing yards (262.5*15) + 93 (Week 1) + 174 (Week 2).
This was a fun change of pace of spending my Sunday afternoons scouring for sad NFL stats. In fact, I even found one for the Tuesday blog. The Bears scored a touchdown four drives in a row. They haven't done this since 2020 vs… the Jaguars…
Go Bears!