WARE, England — Spending the week overseas is nothing new to Caleb Williams. The Bears ’ rookie quarterback has seen the world — he’s watched the Grand Prix in Monaco and gone to the Louis Vuitton spring/summer fashion show in Paris. To his teammates, though, he remains “Baby Bro.
” That’s changing. “He’s taken those strides that he needs to,” receiver DJ Moore said. “He’s been bossy lately, telling us that we need to be in on the details.
We really do, for him to be the best player he needs to be. “What I mean by bossy is, if we don’t hit something in practice, he’s going to tell us how we need to run it ..
. When we get out there in the game, just making sure you work — because he’s gonna have some words for you if you don’t. That’s him being a leader.
He’s a little bossy. It’s the little bro.” Williams stood not far from Moore at the team’s hotel in the English countryside when he heard the receiver’s nickname.
“‘Bossy’ — sounds a little sassy,” Williams said with a smile. Call him “Bossy Bro,” then. Williams has grown more assertive with each game during the Bears’ 3-2 start.
“You do want to see that,” Moore said, smiling. “He’s like little bro, so you’re looking at him like, ‘Dude, don’t be talking to me like that.’ But I understand, because we need to really connect on that.
That’s what we did the past week.” In Week 4, Moore and Williams weren’t on the same page when a surefire 22-yard .
