Williams completed three straight passes to start the possession, connecting with tight end Colston Loveland for 8 yards in the right flat, 29 yards to tight end Cole Kmet over the middle and 6 yards to receiver DJ Moore in the left flat.<\/p>\n
After a holding penalty, Williams hit Loveland for 18 yards and then rifled a slant pass to Zaccheaus, who caught the ball at the 29 before eluding a diving tackle attempt by safety Damar Hamlin and outracing two defenders to the end zone.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t have the best field position to get started there,” said coach Ben Johnson. “So I thought those guys did a really nice job of marching it down the field. Caleb made a couple big-time throws to keep that drive going and some explosive plays there. It was good to see.”<\/p>\n
The long touchdown drive was exactly how Williams wanted to start the game.<\/p>\n
“It sets the tone for us as a team,” he said. “It sets a tone for how we expect ourselves to play and go out and perform. It was extremely important.”<\/p>\n
Williams exited in favor of Tyson Bagent after playing two series and completing 6 of 10 passes for 130 yards with 1 TD and a 130.0 passer rating.<\/p>\n
Johnson lauded Williams for how he performed in recent practices\u2014including Friday’s joint workout with the Bills\u2014as well as in Sunday night’s game.<\/p>\n
“He’s really been locked in,” Johnson said. “Anytime you’re a young player, there’s usually a couple steps forward and one step back and that’s really been the story of his training camp. He and I have been really open and honest about that as we’ve gone through. He’s had some really good practices, and he’s had a couple where it’s like, ‘That isn’t good enough bud.’ I thought really the three days of practice we had this week and this game were the most he’s stacked up good days in a row right now. The challenge is going to be to keep pushing in that direction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams completed three straight passes to start the possession, connecting with tight end Colston Loveland for 8 yards…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81678,18263,8430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-155506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-article-game-recap","9":"tag-caleb-williams","10":"tag-centerpiece","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115049367037528016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}