“I thought he (Williams) did a really good job, you know, passing the ball cleanly to (Swift),” coach Matt Eberflus said. “And Swift, obviously, is a guy that can be really dynamic and has really, really a lot of speed, and he just has to put his feet up at the end.”

Williams posted a 101.8 passer rating with four completed passes. He hit DJ Moore and converted a third-and-12 attempt from his own 28-yard line. How often do Bears quarterbacks convert a third-and-12 attempt from their own 28-yard line, in the preseason or anywhere else?

If you were looking for signs that Williams was “the one,” this was probably a little premature.

The defense is playing boringly in the preseason, but also remember that the offense doesn’t have a real strategy for anyone either.

On the next possession, his task looked much more difficult after a punt to the 3-yard line. No problem, although illegal contact against Buffalo on a failed throw on third down made everything possible.

The bootleg throw to Cole Kmet along the sideline from the Bears’ 41-yard line went for 26 yards, and suddenly all the comments about Williams not being able to throw outside the pocket in the NFL like he did in college were noticeably quieter.

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Williams put the Bears in a good position to score with a 13-yard run on third-and-nine from the Bills’ 32-yard line.

Like Justin Fields-like.

“My back was covered and I saw the sea part, realized it was two men (cover) and I ran,” Williams said.

The two-man coverage was always going to be tough for the Bears to beat with Fields at quarterback. Green Bay loved playing this coverage against the Bears and did so before Fields, when Mitchell Trubisky was quarterback. But Williams recognized it and knew what to do.

The drive ended with a field goal after Williams threw the ball well over Rome Odunze and onto the pylon behind the end zone, a play they had more or less rehearsed but failed to capitalize on.

“I thought he was either going to settle down or run to the back pylon,” Williams said. “He started coming flat and then I had to release the ball. I tried to give him a chance and put him to the back pylon to see if he could run under it.”

All of this could easily have been interpreted or described as the prelude to much bigger things. Williams didn’t want to fall into that trap. The twinkle in his eyes said otherwise.

“Human nature is to take a deep breath and say, ‘Obviously it felt good to get back out there,'” Williams said. “And then that means you have to slow down and also say there’s still a lot of work to be done.”

“I mean, you have to understand where we are and know what we have and where we are going. That’s the most important thing. But you also have to be where you are.”

Where those feet are is Week 2 of the preseason. But they definitely seem to be in a better position after Week 2 of the preseason than they have been in the past.

It was just the trailer. The first part doesn’t start for about four weeks.

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