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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Best of the Bears: Where's Caleb Williams at in his developmental arc?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Bears this week, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed quarterback Caleb Williams' recent play and how he stacks up against his positional peers in the 2024 NFL Draft class; Jenkins Elite founder Tim Jenkins joined the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show to discuss the state of Williams' development in his second NFL season; and ESPN analyst Matt Bowen joined the Spiegel & Holmes Show to discuss the importance of Williams taking the "layups" when they're offered.

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0:00.0

Do you agree with this that if the athletic did one of their, you know, like GM surveys that they do, if they did one of those today?

0:10.6

Yeah.

0:11.1

And it was redraft the quarterbacks.

0:13.9

Yeah, Drake May, Jaden Daniels, Caleb.

0:17.0

See, I think today, they would take him over Bo Nix.

0:23.5

Stop. I wouldn't. Stop. I would not put Bo Nicks out of him oh man that is the same thing that we talked about yesterday and as Nick

0:32.4

Wright is telling our guy Danny Parkins his. His guy, too. Absolutely.

0:37.8

Yeah.

0:40.7

That Caleb would be the fourth quarterback taking on the draft.

0:45.3

The look of pain and exasperation on Danny's television face.

0:46.6

Oh, my goodness.

0:52.3

It was the Simpsons thing of like, you could see where his heart breaks right here.

0:54.9

Because Caleb is struggling.

1:00.3

So look, going into the draft process, I want to be very clear, not a fan of Drake May, not a fan of Bo Nix, okay, was a fan of Jaden Daniels.

1:05.1

I've been on the record with that.

1:07.1

I also think that that gap between Caleb and Jaden was smaller than what people had said at the draft.

1:15.8

And I also think it's smaller reversed now.

1:20.7

Bo Nix has been good and he's gotten better and he's clearly being coached hard and he's taken to the coaching.

1:27.4

His numbers are nice.

1:30.1

He threw for 3,800 yards last year and completed 66% of his passes.

1:35.3

Now that's gone down a little bit so far, but he's also giving you a lot of extra with

1:40.9

his legs.

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