{"id":308340,"date":"2025-08-22T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/308340\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:36:13","slug":"is-caleb-williams-playing-today-bears-qbs-status-vs-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/308340\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Caleb Williams playing today? Bears QB’s status vs Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Chicago Bears<\/a> quarterback Caleb Williams<\/a> playing in his team’s preseason finale against the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Head coach Ben Johnson told the “Up & Adams” Show<\/a> on Aug. 21 that he plans to have the Bears<\/a>‘ starters in action on Friday night for a final tune-up in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

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“Yep. We’ll go ahead and we’ll play. We’ll see how long it is, we’re gonna get through a couple days here of practice, and we’ll determine for how long,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Williams made his 2025 preseason debut in the Bears’ Week 2 exhibition against the Buffalo Bills<\/a> after sitting out the preseason opener against the Miami Dolphins<\/a>. He excelled against the Bills<\/a>, finishing 6-of-10 on pass attempts for 107 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

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The Bears will kick off their preseason finale against the Chiefs in Kansas City at 8:20 p.m. ET\/7:20 p.m. CT on Friday. The game will be available to stream nationwide on NFL+.<\/p>\n

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Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has also confirmed that Kansas City will play its starters in Friday night’s game.<\/p>\n

Chicago begins its regular season in the first “Monday Night Football” game of the year, taking on the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in a divisional clash at home on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Is Caleb Williams playing vs Chiefs in Bears’ preseason finale?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams playing in his team’s preseason finale against the Kansas City Chiefs? Head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1035,53,1036,692,391,2493,7,118,110,251,259,6,17689,17686,25398],"class_list":{"0":"post-308340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-ben-johnson","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-caleb-williams","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-chicagobears","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-kansas-city","17":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-miami-dolphins","19":"tag-minnesota-vikings","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-preseason-finale","22":"tag-preseason-opener","23":"tag-tyson-bagent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115071981076325835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}