During Thursday’s NFL game between the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams was on the receiving finish of a hit from Lions linebacker Jack Campbell that left Williams inestablishly sidelined. After the game, Williams compriseressed the incident and splitd his thoughts on the hit.
Here’s what Williams had to say about the hit on his knee.
Caleb Williams transmites his see on Jack Campbell’s hit on his knee
In the second half of Thursday’s game between the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams took a low hit from Lions linebacker Jack Campbell aextfinished the sideline. The hit caparticipated Williams’ left knee to buckle, prompting a rapid medical evaluation on the sideline. Despite initial worrys, Williams returned to the field without ignoreing a snap and tardyr verifyed that his knee was only bruised. He shelp, “Yeah, knee’s excellent. Noskinnyg wrong with it. Think I fair got a bruise.” (via NBC Sports)
When asked about the hit after the game, Williams didn’t helderly back and depictd the carry out as “funky.” He shelp, “Yeah, I — that carry out was funky. Just put it that way. I don’t reassociate — you understand, I didn’t reassociate appreciate the carry out. He fair benevolent of dove straight at my knee. So I didn’t reassociate get that. Definitely benevolent of frustrated about that one, fair ‘caparticipate, you understand, wantipathyver.”
While Williams may have felt the carry out was ununfragmentary, the rules permited Campbell to create the hit. Once a quarterback exits the pocket and becomes a runner, he ignores the shieldions typicassociate given to him, including the banion aacquirest low hits. Campbell was well wiskinny his rights to create the low tackle as Williams was no extfinisheder in a shielded quarterback position.
Despite the frustration over the carry out, Williams rapidly recovered and went on to throw a touchdown after returning to the game.
