Caleb Williams is owning his personal mistakes from 2024 and says he’s ready to clean up the habits that led to so many sacks

Anyone who watched Williams play during his rookie season can notice exactly what he's referring to. Too many times Williams was hanging onto the ball longer than he needed to because he was looking for the big play or his personal timing was off.

Pair that up with an offensive line that already struggled to protect on their own, it leads to disaster, which is what we saw week in and week out.

And the stats back it up. According to Pro Football Focus, Williams was credited with 17 allowed sacks, the most in the league. His 3.03 time to throw also was the fifth-highest among quarterbacks with 250+ dropbacks in 2024.

It's great he's owning up to some of those personal mistakes and trying to find a way to clean up the bad habits because it's easy for someone to blame the offensive line.

Speaking of which, the new coaching staff still recognized that as it's own issue and made sure to revamp the unit going into this season by adding veteran players such as Joe Thuney, Drew Dalman, and Jonah Jackson to reinforce the starting front, along with having an experienced offensive line coach in Dan Roushar.

Head coach Ben Johnson noted earlier in the offseason that it'll "take a village" to cut down on the number of sacks Williams took last season and avoid that from happening again to that extent.

"The protection up front can get better. The route runners [can] get to their spots faster. We can move the pocket a little bit more," Johnson explained. "There's a lot of things that we have at our disposal that can help with that process."

All of these factors have been addressed going into training camp, including now the quarterback's own issues. The hope is that with these things addressed, the unit can move forward into training camp without having to worry about negative plays.

Now, those will still show up from time to time, of course, but it's all about limiting those mistakes and keeping the offense moving forward. Williams plays a major role in that and the first step to fixing it is by recognizing the issue in the first place.