As the second year of the Caleb Williams era got underway for the Chicago Bears on Monday night, no one should be surprised that the hopeful Bears franchise quarterback painted his nails for the first game of the season. For this game, Williams had a specific reason for choosing the colors and design that he did.
According to the NFL on ESPN account on X, the colors and design for this week's game was in honor of suicide prevention. The cause's colors are teal and purple and Williams also included the logo and "988", which is the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline number.
Caleb Williams is honoring suicide prevention in Week 1.
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) September 9, 2025
He painted his nails with the cause’s colors and logo, along with “988” — the number for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. pic.twitter.com/ycD4g97DSw
This is a really cool way to show support for a cause and props to Williams for bringing attention to it.
Bears QB Caleb Williams honors suicide prevention with painted nails for Week 1
Williams painting his nails has become a highly-talked about story dating back to when he was in college and painted "F*** Utah" on them while he was quarterbacking the USC Trojans. Well, after his Trojans lost that game to the Utes, Williams toned it down but hasn't completely gone away from styling up his nails for games.
The Bears signal-caller made sure that fans were introduced to his nail-painting right away during his rookie year, sporting bright orange nails in his NFL debut a year ago. For that game, Williams' nails read "#18 DA BEARS," and it was hard not to be a fan of him rocking those orange nails.
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As for why the second-year Bears quarterback paints his nails, Williams' mom is a nail tech and he said that it's something the two of them have always done together. To see him using these opportunities to bring awareness to important causes is cool and hopefully he doesn't steer away from that.