Caleb Williams delivered a clean stat line in the Chicago Bears’ Monday Night Football win over the Seattle Seahawks, but one analyst thinks the rookie may have been giving away a little too much in the fourth quarter.
Williams went 24 of 34 for 247 yards and a touchdown as Chicago rolled to a 34-17 victory and moved to 6-2. The game had already drawn attention before kickoff because pregame fireworks went off near a helicopter, but the postgame conversation shifted to something much closer to the field.
Dave Kluge posted on X that Williams appeared to be tipping plays with his mouthguard. “I hope someone on the Bears coaching staff sees this and tells Caleb Williams,” Kluge wrote. “He was tipping play calls late last night.”
Kluge said Williams wore the mouthguard normally when Chicago passed, but let it dangle on handoffs. He said that pattern showed up on all but one fourth-quarter play, though he also added, “On some plays, I couldn’t tell,” he admitted.
Benjamin Allbright said he had seen a similar tell before. “A former Broncos WR/returner used to do this.
I pointed it out in preseason to someone on staff who didn’t believe it initially. Guy got waived and signed to another team PS two days later.
Was still doing it with them,” Allbright wrote.
The reaction online split quickly. One user suggested Bears head coach Ben Johnson may have done it on purpose.
“Ben Johnson probably told him go do this so teams clue in on it so he can get a trick play out of it,” they wrote. Another fan pushed back by pointing to passing plays.
“Been plenty of pass plays where’s it’s dangling though.”
Someone else took the theory even further. “I bet this is a season long intentional ploy by Ben and Caleb just to flip in during a playoff game’s 4th quarter,” someone else shared.
Whether the mouthguard habit was a tell or a setup, the Bears left Seattle with the win, and the alleged giveaway didn’t change the final result.
In Other News...
Caleb Williams Drew New Scrutiny After One Odd Detail Vs Seahawks
Caleb Williams latest outing drew more than the usual postgame review after the Bears win over the Seahawks, even with the rookie quarterback turning in a solid performance. Williams completed 24 of 34 passes for 247 yards and a touchdown, helping Chicago leave Seattle with a victory and another encouraging step in his development.
The extra attention came from an odd fourth-quarter detail that caught the eye of analyst Dave Kluge, who raised the possibility that Williams was giving away something with his mouthguard. Fans and analysts quickly started parsing whether it was intentional or just a quirk of how he wore it, but the Bears result never changed, and the episode now sits as one more small wrinkle in the growing scrutiny around the young quarterback. [Read more 🡒]
Rome Odunze Just Gave Bears Fans A Reason To Believe
Rome Odunze kept giving the Bears a needed spark in Week 8 against the Seahawks, turning four catches into 87 yards and leading Chicago in receiving. His day featured multiple chunk gains of at least 18 yards, the kind of downfield production the Bears have been looking for as they try to find more consistency in the passing game.
The bigger picture is even more encouraging for Chicago. Odunzes breakout season has now reached 994 receiving yards, putting him on the doorstep of a milestone that would underscore just how quickly he has become one of the offenses most important pieces. For a team still searching for reliable playmakers, his rise has become one of the clearest reasons to keep watching. [Read more 🡒]
Bears Already Have A Few 2027 Decisions Getting Harder To Ignore
The Bears are moving into Week 9 with a little more clarity after their win over Seattle, but some of the roster questions already stretching toward 2027 are getting harder to ignore. Chicago has a handful of players headed for free agency that year, and their current roles are starting to say plenty about where they fit in the long view, from the secondary to the offensive line and into the backfield.
Tyrique Stevenson has had a rough stretch in coverage while Malik Muhammad has been out, Roschon Johnson is still fighting for touches behind D'Andre Swift, and Garrett Bradbury has generally held up well at center even with some pass protection issues around him. James Lynch may have a path to more snaps because of injuries in front of him, while Kalif Raymond continues to make his case mainly as a punt returner, leaving the Bears with several decisions that are becoming more difficult to put off. [Read more 🡒]