Buckle up, we've got the newest Caleb Williams hot take of the week. In the lead up to this April's NFL Draft, more and more people are coming out of the woodwork to try and rationalize why their opinion on this year's class is the opinion to listen to.
Most people, generally speaking, all agree: Caleb Williams is the best quarterback prospect this year, and perhaps one of the better quarterback prospects in the last half decade or so. At the very least, he's a good enough prospect to convince the Bears to move on from Justin Fields. There are, however, the small minority of people who think that saying "I watched all his snaps" allows you to follow that with the craziest opinion possible. For example:
As a former #NFL Scout, I don’t do this for clicks. My end game is a 2nd chance in the NFL. I have a 4th round grade on Caleb Williams. With the way folks ‘keep the receipts,’ I had to make sure, so I evaluated every snap the past 2 seasons. He’s not it. https://t.co/pwMLY8oVlZ
— FIRST ROUND MOCK (@firstroundmock) February 14, 2024
He doesn't do it for clicks, but if you can believe it, a lot of people clicked on it! And sure, literally no one else on the planet has a 4th round grade on Caleb Williams, but maybe this guys knows better? And if you can believe it, he's all over the replies trying to defend his merit and just generally making things worse.
If you want to be a little bit of a contrarian and say that Williams shouldn't be picked first overall, fine – that's a totally rational argument you could try to make if you really wanted to. But to say that he's a 4th round pick, and to back that up because "I was kind of right about Trey Lance" is Twitter Football at its finest. The quote tweets are full of exactly what you'd expect, and probably what he should have seen coming.
If anything, this is a good lesson in rule number 1 of Twitter: never tweet. The absolute last thing that website needs is more zany opinions that are just really ham-fisted attempts to drive traffic to your profile in the hopes that some random NFL executive has a burner and is looking to hire the most contrarian take he can find. Only two months left!