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The first time quarterback Caleb Williams ever spoke publicly about the Bears, months before they drafted him, he said he intended to “create history.”
He knew the Bears’ past, everything from the iconic 1985 championship team to their recent debacles, and recognized his arrival as the No. 1 draft pick would come with enormous expectations to restore their glory. He’d compete not only against his peers, but against the mythology of ’85 and the drought that followed.
It didn’t scare him. He embraced it.
Williams can begin writing his own part of the Bears’ century-long story Saturday against the Packers in his first playoff game.