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Starting over? Bears coach Ben Johnson doesn't see much carryover from QB Caleb Williams' rookie season

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It would’ve been easy for Bears coach Ben Johnson to throw his predecessors a bone and give them a morsel of credit for steering quarterback Caleb Williams through his rookie season. All he’d have to do is make a vague mention of some basic concepts Matt Eberflus and Shane Waldron introduced.

Nope.

“There really isn’t a ton of carryover from what he was asked to do, the play calls or anything of that nature,” Johnson said before rolling into a list of new tasks he has for Williams. “There’s a lot more going on mentally than probably there’s ever been for him.