{"id":906215,"date":"2026-05-31T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/906215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:30:17","slug":"number-one-weapon-is-emerging-for-caleb-williams-with-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/906215\/","title":{"rendered":"Number one weapon is emerging for Caleb Williams with Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Bears<\/a>‘ offense is full of young, talented weapons. In Year 3, Caleb Williams<\/a> has a strong arsenal to work with. It will be interesting to see which young receiver rises and becomes the number one guy. So far, one name sticks out among the rest: Luther Burden. In a recent article<\/a>, Alyssa Barbieri displayed who Ben Johnson thinks will be the Bears’ No. 1 receiver this season:<\/p>\n

The Bears are betting big on Luther Burden in 2026, and the sky is the limit. But don’t take it from me. Listen to head coach Ben Johnson.<\/p>\n

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“I’m buying Luther Burden stock right now,” Johnson said during OTAs. “He has been extremely coachable. …Yesterday, he had numerous explosive plays.”<\/p>\n

Johnson doesn’t hand out immense praise casually, so it’s definitely noteworthy listening to one of the NFL’s brightest offensive minds discussing Burden’s growth between Year 1 and Year 2 and unlocking his full potential.<\/p>\n

“He looks like he is moving at a different speed right now,” Johnson said. “He is not thinking as much. The game is slowing down for him.”<\/p>\n

Luther Burden is primed for a big season, and that will be huge for 3rd year quarterback Caleb Williams. Luther Burden has an elite skillset, and if he takes a step forward, he can make the Bears offense even more dangerous. The game will be so much easier for Caleb with a target like Burden. Those two could create the next great connection in Chicago next season.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: Receiver Luther Burden gains traction as Caleb Williams’ top target<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears‘ offense is full of young, talented weapons. In Year 3, Caleb Williams has a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[121513,374,1035,1036,692,391,2493,7,277,6],"class_list":["post-906215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bears","tag-alyssa-barbieri","tag-bears","tag-ben-johnson","tag-caleb-williams","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chicagobears","tag-football","tag-luther-burden","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116669436600093981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906215","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=906215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}