Chicago Bears fans weren’t sure what to expect from Caleb Williams this season. They knew he had talent. Arguably, the most of any quarterback in franchise history. However, it takes more than physical tools to thrive in the NFL. This team has learned the hard way with guys like Justin Fields, Jay Cutler, and Mitch Trubisky. As the 2025 campaign unfolded, it became apparent Williams had something many hadn’t expected. He seems to play his best football in crunch time, delivering clutch drives in the 4th quarter.
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He’d engineered back-to-back game-winning drives against the Raiders and Commanders to get the Bears to 3-2. It looked like he wouldn’t need another in Cincinnati as the Bears led 41-27 with two minutes left. Then Joe Flacco put up 15 points in 40 seconds to erase that lead. Chicago was stunned. Most people thought it was over. Not just the game, but the season. You don’t come back from things like that. With 54 seconds left, Williams had one last chance to save the day. In an episode of 1920 Football Drive, he revealed what he told head coach Ben Johnson right before stepping on the field for the final drive.
It was just two simple words.
People thought he was boasting when asked about it last year. The only time he got nervous was during his first high school game. After that, he learned to keep his emotions under control and developed a taste for the dramatic. In hindsight, we probably should’ve seen this coming. Caleb Williams’ first game in college was a wild comeback against Texas while coming off the bench. He went on to do it three more times against Oregon State, Arizona, and California. So there were always signs he could rally his team late, but people didn’t take much notice of it.
Whatever the case, to think the Bears got this type of player after watching other organizations enjoy it for so long is surreal. Chicago hasn’t been synonymous with late-game heroics since Michael Jordan retired. The last thing anybody expected was for a Bears quarterback to pick up that mantle. Yet here we are.
This isn’t probably the kind of NFL history Carson Wentz thought his career would lead him to when the Philadelphia Eagles selected him at No. 2 overall in the 2016 NFL draft.
Instead, Wentz could make a totally different type of NFL history if he starts for the Minnesota Vikings against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 3, becoming the first quarterback to start for 6 different teams in 6 consecutive seasons.
Wentz signed a 1-year, $1.42 million contract with the Vikings on August 24 and is in line to start after 2024 first round pick J.J. McCarthy sprained his ankle in a Week 2 loss to the Atlanta Falcons and is projected to be out 2-4 weeks.
Wentz started 12 games for the Eagles in 2020, 17 games for the Indianapolis Colts in 2021, 7 games for the Washington Commanders in 2022, 1 game for the Los Angeles Rams in 2023 and 1 games for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2024.
“If he starts for the Vikings this weekend, Carson Wentz would become the first quarterback in NFL history to start at least one game for six different teams in six consecutive seasons,” ESPN’s Bill Barnwell wrote on his official X account on September 15.
Carson Wentz will start for his 6th team in 6 seasons — which is something no QB in NFL history has ever done.
• 2025: Vikings
• 2024: Chiefs (1 game)
• 2023: Rams (1 game)
• 2022: Commanders (7 games)
• 2021: Colts (17 games)
• 2020: Eagles (12 games) pic.twitter.com/QmxhHmGI1n
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) September 15, 2025
Wentz played his first 5 seasons for the Eagles before he was benched in favor of current Eagles starter and reigning Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts late in the 2020 season.
It’s kind of wild to think Wentz, who was a plug and play starter as a rookie in Philadelphia, was one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks in just his second season in 2017. That year, he was not only named NFL All-Pro but selected to the Pro Bowl and won a Super Bowl title.
The problem? Wentz tore his ACL in Week 14, backup Nick Foles took over and led the Eagles to the first Super Bowl win in franchise history — including winning Super Bowl LII MVP honors in an upset of the New England Patriots.
Wentz’s bigger problem in 2017 wasn’t his injury. It was his attitude.
When Wentz expressed displeasure to his teammates during their run to the Super Bowl that the Eagles were winning without him — which led to a physical confrontation with a teammate who heard what he was saying and called him out.
The Eagles still signed Wentz to a 4-year, $128 million contract extension before the 2019 season only to trade him to the Colts in February 2021 in exchange for a 2021 third round pick and 2022 first round pick.
Wentz was one win away from leading the Colts to the playoffs but lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2021 regular season finale — a loss that not only saw his team eliminated but disgusted owner Jim Irsay so much he traded Wentz to the Commanders before the 2022 season.
With the Commanders, Wentz was benched for Taylor Heinicke after a finger injury then released following the season. He played on a 1-year contract for the Rams in 2023 and a 1-year contact for the Chiefs in 2024.
Through 10 NFL seasons, Wentz has approximately $134.1 million in career earnings.