'Those things to me are really, pretty important. Key: 'I think the starting point is always going to be, how do you help their decision-making? How do you help develop the timing in the passing game? And then how do you help them develop their accuracy? And that has to do with their feet, what the footwork looks like. After four seasons with Burrow, Callahan was hired by the Titans in 2024 and will be tasked with the development of second-year quarterback Will Levis. Burrow led Cincinnati to Super Bowl LVI in his second season and the AFC title game the following year. Résumé: Callahan was Joe Burrow's offensive coordinator in 2020 when the Cincinnati Bengals drafted him with the No. The Bears might want to pay attention.īrian Callahan, Tennessee Titans head coach We asked 11 NFL coaches and two general managers, including those who have drafted and developed prospects into franchise quarterbacks, to name the single most important tool in that development. If Williams joins the Bears, will he follow in the footsteps of Grossman, Trubisky and Fields, or will he end the embarrassing references to Luckman as the Bears' last franchise QB? The Steelers made room for Fields by cutting another former Bears first-rounder in Mitch Trubisky, the No. He was traded in March to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a conditional sixth-round pick, and he's expected to back up Russell Wilson. 11 in 2021, was the latest first-round quarterback who didn't pan out for the Bears. Part of the problem, Poles said, was rooted in poor evaluation of prospects. 22 overall in 2003, reached Super Bowl XLI with the third-best scoring defense that season.

5 pick in 1982, won Super Bowl XX with perhaps the greatest defense ever assembled and one of the greatest running backs, Walter Payton, still performing at his peak. Two of those QBs helped achieve team success, but with a ton of help. Those quarterbacks have combined for zero selections to the All-Pro teams (first team or second), and two Pro Bowls during their time in Chicago. Since the NFL and AFL merged in 1966, creating the first common draft in '67, the Bears have selected six QBs in the first round. The last quarterback the Bears drafted in the first round and developed into an All-Pro was Sid Luckman, who was taken with the second overall pick in 1939, when there were just 10 teams. The Bears are expected to draft Williams with the No.

Perhaps the person most interested in the answer is USC quarterback Caleb Williams. 'It's a good question,' Poles said at the annual league meeting in March. Intel on developing QB ahead of Bears' pick in NFL draftĬhicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles pondered the question, knowing his ability to find an answer will help define his legacy: Why haven't the Bears been able to draft and develop a franchise quarterback in the past 85 years? You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser

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