Caleb Williams is entering his sophomore season with the Chicago Bears, but not everything was smooth sailing during last spring's draft process.
According to ESPN's Seth Wickersham, the soon-to-be-released "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback" chronicles the struggles Williams faced when he realized he was going to be drafted by the Bears.
He and his dad, Carl Williams, were not happy.
"I don't want my son playing for the Bears," Carl Williams said last year.
As for why, it's quarterback development, or lack thereof, the carousel in Chicago got so bad that no matter what the Bears tried, even with someone like Justin Fields leading the offense, it didn't result in overnight success.
Williams attempted to explore other alternatives, but ultimately, the Bears were hellbent on selecting him, even if it meant at the expense of ever-growing relationships with the Minnesota Vikings.
"We're drafting you no matter what," General Manager Ryan Poles told Caleb Williams.
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That decision ended up being final, and after soaking it all in, Caleb Williams finally warmed up to the idea despite Carl describing the Bears as a team "where quarterbacks go to die."
"I'm going to go to the Bears," Caleb Williams told his dad.
With a year under his belt and no longer under the direction of Shane Waldron as offensive coordinator, a vast improvement from Year 1 to Year 2 is fairly realistic.
"Being able to be in this position, being able to have a first year the way I did, ups and downs, and then to be able come in here, be as confident as I was last year or possibly even more and to be able to get here with the group that we have, I really can't wait to get to work with these guys," Williams said in April.
Given how the Bears' schedule lays out this fall, it seems Williams will have a chance to prove some of the teams wrong that passed on him.
Regardless of how rocky it started, Williams is the face of the Bears and should be for years to come.