Bears general manager Ryan Poles, left, speaks with Carl Williams, father of Caleb Williams, second from right, before the 2024 NFL draft. AP

“Carl Williams was right.”

I thought those four words myself during Caleb Williams’ rookie season, but the quote is from Seth Wickersham, the longtime ESPN writer and author of a new book “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback” , and it admits the obvious: Caleb Williams’ father was absolutely correct to be worried about his son ending up with the Chicago Bears.

The context of that quote was part of a broader point he was making about the “quarterback dad,” who is “kind of a secondary character” in Wickersham’s engrossing look at our country’s most prestigious, challenging profession: NFL quarterback.

We all saw what happened last sea

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