Bears new coaching staff are using one of Caleb Williams' biggest idols to help influence his game going into his second season

The Chicago Bears have been pulling out all the tricks to help quarterback Caleb Williams adjust and find improvement in 2025 under a new coaching staff.

This is increasingly important after hearing all the reports that came out about how the previous staff worked with Williams, on and off the field.

Just having a head coach in Ben Johnson with his innovative offensive scheme is going to do wonders for the second-year franchise quarterback, but the new staff is going beyond installing a new offense to help Williams grow.

Earlier in the offseason, Johnson noted he wants to move Williams back under center, similar to how he used Jared Goff in Detroit. Doing so helps make the run game, and the play-action off of it, more effective and efficient.

On Tuesday, NFL Insider Albert Breer listed two other areas of improvement the new staff wants to see Williams focus on in 2025.

"There were two areas where the coaches wanted improvement from Williams. Both related to how he carried himself as the quarterback, based on what the 2024 season showed. One was body language. The other was presnap procedure."

"On the former, while the coaches understood the beating he took, they showed film to emphasize how he’d been slow to pull himself up off the ground. It was a long year. People got fired in-season. And in adverse circumstances, the staff explained, having a quarterback who was rolling with the punches would go a long way. On the latter, there was a smattering of small things—like on the first play of one game, he turned to his left, thinking the motion was coming, when it was actually coming from the right—that needed to be cleaned up." - Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer

Those are two reasonable areas Williams should look to improve based on what we saw during his rookie season. One of the more underrated moves to help with those things was the signing of veteran QB Case Keenum to be a player-coach for Williams.

Beyond that, the Bears' coaching staff have also been showing Williams film of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, someone Williams has mentioned before as one of his top NFL idols.

"There's some big picture leadership stuff, like how you carry yourself as a franchise quarterback that I think will resonate with some people," Breer shared on ESPN 1000. "They watched a lot of Detroit tape obviously to get him ready to play in Ben's offense. They watched a lot of Matthew Stafford tape to help him work mechanically. So, there's a lot of little details that they've been honing in on."

Stafford has proven to be one of the best in the business when it comes to carrying himself as a franchise QB for two different teams and his mechanics are always top notch. It's no surprise to see him as someone the Bears want Williams to learn from.