Caleb Williams: It’s been a frustrating and encouraging year

Monday night’s 30-12 loss to the Vikings was the Bears’ eighth in a row, and there are only so many positives one can take after such a stretch.

Quarterback Caleb Williams did his best. The first overall pick in this year’s draft was 18 of 31 for 191 yards and a touchdown while being sacked twice in the loss, and said “it was frustrating and encouraging” when asked to reflect on his rookie season following the loss .

The frustrating part of being on a 4-10 team hardly needs explanation, but Williams said the encouraging part is “how much we fight as a team.”

“Being able to go through anything What happened this year?” Williams said, via Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com. “I wasn’t playing well at the beginning of the season and I felt like I was able to see it well and then be able to find ways to continue to grow and continue to move forward in the times where I was frustrated.” Coach get fired and so on, right now it’s 4 to 10. Being able to wake up, be consistent and do it every day the way it goes is encouraging to me. This is encouraging for this team and we have to keep going. It was encouraging but also frustrating for me.”

There will be more changes for the Bears once the season comes to a close, and the decisions they make in the process will have a big impact on whether Williams has to continue to work as hard to find good spots.