{"id":115029,"date":"2024-04-26T03:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T03:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=115029"},"modified":"2024-04-26T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T03:47:08","slug":"bears-caleb-williams-makes-official-jersey-number-decision-after-nfl-draft-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/bears-caleb-williams-makes-official-jersey-number-decision-after-nfl-draft-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Caleb Williams makes official jersey number decision after NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.clutchpoints.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F04%2FBears-news-Caleb-Williams-makes-official-jersey-number-decision-after-NFL-Draft.jpg&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Caleb Williams, Bears, Williams Bears, Bears pick, Williams jersey\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<article>On Thursday evening, the\u00a0Chicago Bears\u00a0selected their franchise quarterback of the future by taking former USC Trojans and Heisman Trophy winning quarterback\u00a0Caleb Williams\u00a0with the number one overall pick\u2013which they owned courtesy of a previous trade with the Carolina Panthers, who finished with the worst record in the NFL this year\u2013in the 2024 NFL Draft.\u00a0Williams joins a\u00a0Bears team that\u00a0underachieved this past year and traded away their former quarterback Justin Fields in order to clear the way for Williams&#8217; arrival.Of course, the arrival of a new star player usually signals an increase in jersey sales for an organization, but one question on the minds of everyone in Chicago was\u00a0what jersey number\u00a0that Williams would choose for his new team.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the answer to that question has now been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBears say new QB Caleb Williams will wear No. 18, his number in high school at Gonzaga,\u201d reported Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times on X, the social media platform formerly referred to as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears have already made some moves this offseason in preparation for Williams&#8217; arrival, including the aforementioned trade of Fields as well as the acquisition of star wide receiver Keenan Allen from the Los Angeles Chargers to\u00a0help bolster a receiving core that left a bit to be desired over the last couple of seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Bears fans can now begin to purchase their Williams jerseys and show their support for their franchise&#8217;s new quarterback of the future.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, the\u00a0Chicago Bears\u00a0selected their franchise quarterback of the future by taking former USC Trojans and Heisman Trophy winning quarterback\u00a0Caleb Williams\u00a0with the number one overall pick\u2013which&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":115032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115034,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115029\/revisions\/115034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}