Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams sustained a Grade 2 hamstring injury, which medical professionals state typically requires three to four weeks of recovery time, according to reports from ESPN and NFL Network sources.
Johnson further communicated to ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago that Williams would remain unavailable for an extended period, subsequently clarifying to the media that the team was monitoring the quarterback’s availability on a week-to-week basis. The Week 6 contest against the Atlanta Falcons would represent the fourth game, which appears feasible given that the Bears have not placed Williams on injured reserve. During a Monday press conference following Williams’s hamstring imaging examination, Bears head coach Ben Johnson stated that the diagnostic findings were moderately positive. “This guy’s a little bit different than the average human being. He gets back — he has in the past — a lot faster than what people can anticipate, and so I’m not putting a timeline on this. We’re going to say week-to-week. Should Williams be sidelined for three weeks, he would miss matchups against the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, and Green Bay Packers.
I said that last night, I’ll double down on that. He’s going to attack this with everything that he knows,” Johnson said, as per ESPN.
