Despite some early doubts in the months before he was drafted, Caleb Williams entered the 2024 NFL draft believing that he could turn around the Bears.

If Caleb Williams had gotten his way in the NFL Draft last year, he definitely wouldn't have ended up in Chicago. That's the main takeaway from "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," a book by ESPN's Seth Wickersham. ESPN revealed a few tidbits from the book on Thursday and there were some bombshells.

According to ESPN's Seth Wickersham in his new book "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback", Williams father Carl described Chicago as "the place quarterbacks go to die" while Caleb Williams told his inner-circle before the draft "I don't think I can do it with [former Bears offensive coordinator Shane] Waldron."