Caleb Williams Ben Johnson figures must strengthen so that bears succeed

There is a good reason why Ben Johnson said he would be emptying the bear in attack and building quarter Caleb Williams.

A large part of what happened last season with Williams did not work. A disaster could have been the best way to say it, after being the last in the Yteration League for the first time since 2024, but failed to finish the 20th in attack for the eighth consecutive year.

It was not a way to bring a very popular recruit passer and it resulted in certain discouraging figures in several ways compared to the choice of global draft n ° 1.

Given that johnson lions offenses have ranked fourth, third and second in the last three years respectively after being 20th and 22nd in previous years to his promotion to play the caller, there is a good chance that Johnson managed to raise Williams.

“This offense will be calibrated with him in mind,” said Johnson. “We are going to build this thing. It is not just a drop in a previous game book on the table and start there. No, we will tear this thing with the studs, and we will build it with him first and Above all, then with the pieces around him afterwards. “

There are many statistics that Williams must strengthen for 2025 and the Johnson offense will only work if Williams only reaches this.

Here are the five numbers Williams need to improve the most for 2025.

The sites by attempt has long been a key passage statistics indicating success. This explains so much because the ball moves into bigger pieces. Improving this number for Williams will have to be up there with the percentage of completion for 2025, even more important. A 6.3 was 28th among the passers -by who started half of their team’s matches last year. It is well below the 7.1 league average. Only Bryce Young and Daniel Jones were worse among the QB which started at least half of their team’s matches.

It is not a figure which means that Williams launches too short, or becomes a “Charlie with the check”, although it can happen to the QB. In the case of Williams, its planned aircraft film is too high to show it. Its number was low due to its inaccurate descendants field throws and also due to the high number of passes that the team made it throw behind or on the melee line which was well covered. He always had yards to raise after the total capture even after the targets were so well covered.

It was the percentage of completion of Williams. It was 33rd among the passers -by of the NFL last year, which is obviously not good when there are 32 teams. The number of Williams was so poor in part because it tended to launch more deeply, as indicated by its third place for the plane lessons planned (4,443). However, he was also too often inaccurate, especially in the central part of the schedule and at the very beginning. Pro Football Focus has a complicated metric measuring this, the percentage of adjusted completion. He measures how precise the throws of a quarter take into account the incompleteness caused by drops, hit and decisions specific to the game, such as tips and throwing. Williams ranked 46th in the league at 73.4%.

It seems terrible but he had company. He was tied with Will Levis, better than Matthew Stafford (73.2%) and just behind Brock Purdy (74.1%) and Josh Allen (74.2%). He was much better than Trevor Lawrence (64th), Anthony Richardson (73rd), Michael Penix (61st) and Bryce Young (55th). A percentage of QB completion must be 65% or more these days to have an impact, unless it reaches many launchers. The league average was 65.3% last year.

Total bags should drop. That’s not all on his offensive line. Williams caused a lot of these bags. He had 51 bags on games when he had the ball for four seconds or more. Patton Analytics calculated Williams was responsible for 45% of his own total bags.

Although these are not exact figures, they tend to point in the same direction. Williams was a QB trying to play by holding him longer or by launching under extreme pressure. His “Superman” act is on occasion, but he has too much to go.

Another cause of too many bags is poorly designed games. This should change with Johnson in charge of their offense.

The notation of the efficiency of Williams must increase. It is not QBR, which is an artificial metric created by ESPN which means nothing for most people. Matt Eberflus always referring to the QBR hen, he in fact meant the notation of the passer. Passenger rating is a standard calculation used for a long time throughout the league. Williams was not bad for a recruit in this regard.

Launching Touché passes helps and the fact that he was tied in 15th place to this defined was a plus. Throwing fewer interceptions helps this number and he has already managed to succeed with only six. Only five passers -by who started more than half of their team’s matches were better and Justin Herbert was the only QB with at least 500 attempts that had less than Williams.

This is a number that should increase during year 2.

He increased by 12 points for Justin Fields in 2nd and 17.9 points for Mitchell Trubisky in 2nd year, although in both cases, he was so weak in their recruit years that it would have been difficult for them not to not improve it.

Bryce Young increased its 8.5 points in 2nd year, CJ Stroud was already abnormally high and sang by 13.8 points. And its attacking coordinator was dismissed. Williams has room to improve because something in the 1990s is desired, and really effective passers -by arrive at the 100 years with the combination of yards by pass, the percentage of completion, the affected and the lack of interceptions .

It is also a passer note, but it is a situational statistic. This is Williams’ passer when the games are tied.

The games are obviously tied when they are aimlessly and this is supported by his score note in the first quarter. It was a meager 78.8, its worst for any neighborhood.

It must be better prepared for what is going to face and execute better at the start of the games when they are competitive.

Coaching can certainly help here.

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