Feb. 14, 2026, 11:50 a.m. CT
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams led the team to an 11-6 record and an NFC North title in the 2025 season.Williams set a new Bears single-season record with 3,942 passing yards and an NFL record with seven fourth-quarter comebacks.NFL.com ranked Williams as the seventh-best starting quarterback of the 2025 season, a significant jump from his previous ranking.Despite needing to improve his completion percentage, Williams was noted for his clutch playmaking and deep ball ability under head coach Ben Johnson.
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams made himself a household name during the 2025 season with his NFL-record seven fourth-quarter comebacks and insane throws. Williams helped lead Chicago from worst-to-first with an 11-6 record, NFC North title and wild-card playoff win.
Williams set numerous records, both NFL and franchise, including setting a Bears single-season record with 3,942 passing yards. Williams made huge strides in Year 2 and his first season with head coach Ben Johnson, including his deep ball, innate playmaking ability and cutting down on sacks. While his completion percentage (58.1) needs to improve, he was one of the league’s most clutch quarterbacks and his future is incredibly bright under Johnson.
NFL.com’s Nick Shook ranked all the starting quarterbacks during the 2025 season, and Williams landed among the Top 10 at No. 7, which is a huge jump from his No. 28 standing after the 2024 season. Williams was also the fourth best quarterback in the NFC, and he ranked higher than the other starting NFC North quarterbacks ahead of Detroit’s Jared Goff (9th) and Green Bay’s Jordan Love (14th).
Caleb Williams steadily improved throughout his first season under Ben Johnson and produced some incredible heroics in the postseason, powering an unbelievable comeback over the Packers on Wild Card Weekend and nearly doing the same against the Rams in the Divisional Round. Perhaps I’m a sucker for recency and hyperbole, but by the end of this season, Williams is among the quarterbacks I think of first when I ask the question: Who defined the 2025 season?
While some might disagree with Shook’s rankings, especially as it pertains to Williams being ranked seventh and ahead of Goff and Love, there’s no denying that Williams was a difference maker in 2025. Sure, you’d like to see a better completion percentage and more success in the short passing game (which is surely going to be a focal point this offseason), no one was better than Williams with late-game heroics.
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