Joel Smyth: "There isn' much negative about Caleb Williams" | #chicagobears #thesickpodcast

What is your thought on Caleb, not necessarily as a quarterback, but in fantasy football circles, because I get a lot of people asking me that. I really don't know how to answer it because I love Caleb and I look at it like I don't care because I just want to win football games. I don't know if it's always going to be good. What is the fantasy community saying about Caleb Williams coming into 2026? There's been a ton of praise on Williams and I was like hesitant when I was first researching kind of like back in the spring for this year. I was a little hesitant because I've seen some crazy stuff like he's top five in fantasy this season, but as I've come around, as I've looked into it more, it does make sense. There isn't much negative and a lot of what I look at for fantasy quarterbacks, we're talking just like separate from the NFL, is just their situation. Caleb Williams, the coaching is there, the offense is there, the talent around him there, and the volume. I wouldn't compare it to Jared Goff on Detroit when Ben Johnson added to him. Last year and the first year with Ben Johnson, his volume was incredible. They threw a lot at the goal line and in the red zone a lot more than Detroit did. They weren't just running it every single time at the goal line and this is volume in terms of the scrambling. You add that in. There isn't much negative about Caleb Williams, so it's hard to rank him too much lower than I think he's going like ADP quarterback seven, quarterback eight right now. I would have him maybe even above that. He's in this range that I just really like taking one of those guys, waiting up until that quarterback seven to 12 range, but I like him. There isn't much downside. No, and he doesn't turn the ball over. He did a great job of not throwing interceptions despite the fact that they did throw the ball a lot more than I believe that he did in his rookie season.