Bears QB Caleb Williams is ranked higher by Chris Simms than any rookie ever in his annual rating of all NFL quarterbacks.
The much-anticipated Chris Simms rankings came out on Tuesday and Bears rookie Caleb Williams is in a lofty place for a rookie. Actually, he's in a place higher than any rookie has ever been since Simms started doing his rankings.Simms said he had no problem ranking a rookie so high because he's now standing by what he believes in after he had been "chickening out" in the past when it came to ranking rookies over veterans.
Simms regards Williams as a quarterback who has been groomed for this success since he was young, so he'll achieve. "I look at him as being a natural, being a 'Chosen One' type of guy," Simms said. "He's been in an offense in his college career where it was on his shoulders and he was asked to read the field and check and do things at the line of scrimmage."Fields is ranked one spot ahead of Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson and two ahead of Derek Carr. Daniel Jones is No. 23, Deshaun Watson No. 24. A backup QB is No. 25, former Bears QB Justin Fields.
"Right now I categorize him as a guy who kind of needs to be in a certain offense and the game needs to be played a certain way, right, for him to be at his best," Simms said of Fields. "And I think what he's in Pittsburgh will be suiting to him."BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years.
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