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The Sports Junkies

Do The Bears Regret Drafting Caleb Williams?

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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From 09/09 Hour 3: The Sports Junkies debate if the Bears regret drafting Caleb Williams.

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0:22.6

So we wanted to get into some interesting audio centered around Caleb Williams, the Chicago Bears quarterback.

0:30.8

Now this is an investigation done by Ty Dunn, who interviewed a lot of people within the Bears organization.

0:41.1

33 people within the organization, either currently or formerly worked for the Chicago Bears

0:47.9

about Caleb Williams.

0:50.0

Wow.

0:50.5

So we've got three different audio clips here.

0:53.3

The first one is about the draft process of Caleb Williams

0:56.3

and how the Bears seemed pretty much dead set on drafting Caleb Williams and nobody else.

1:02.8

Oh, I mean, I had scouts in the room tell me it was unlike anything they've seen in their entire lives.

1:07.0

Just a total farce, a quote-unquote rigged trial, a rigged process. There was no process.

1:14.1

It was Caleb Williams all the way. I mean, and look, if Caleb Williams is a Hall of

1:19.2

Famer, then that conviction for Ryan Poles will win the day, right? Then he gets the last laugh here.

1:24.6

But we're talking as early as Caleb Williams winning that

1:27.7

Heisman trophy, when he's ineligible to even be drafted, I was told that Ryan Poles would

1:32.0

have taken him then with that first pick if he could have. So, yeah, they make the trade,

1:37.2

they have the ammo, they get the first pick. And December of 23, really as early as they had

1:43.2

draft meetings, by the time all the scouts got in

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