Injury alert
Out — hamstring injury
Practice: Did not practice — hamstring injury
Updated Fri 1:00 PM ET · Est. return Oct 11 · Source: ESPN injury report · Practice: NFL official injury report, week 4 (via nflverse)
Is Caleb Williams playing this week?
OutCaleb Williams is listed as Out for the week 4 game against the New York Jets (hamstring injury). Out means not expected to play.
Estimated return: Oct 11.
Official practice report (week 4): Did not practice, hamstring injury.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 1:00 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:18 PM ET against the ESPN injury report and the NFL's official weekly report (via nflverse). Injury news can change up to kickoff, so confirm with the team close to game time.
From the beat
What reporters are saying about him, last 3 days.
Bears final injury report vs. Jets NO injury designation for D'Andre Swift, who popped up with a knee injury Thursday and was DNP. He was a full participant today. OUT: Caleb Williams, Braxton Jones, Kyler Gordon (PUP* full practice for a 2nd straight day), Noah Sewell (PUP*),
Courtney Cronin @CourtneyRCronin · 1d ago · View on X
Caleb Williams (hamstring) has been ruled OUT for a 2nd straight game. Ben Johnson won't name a QB starter today between Tyson Bagent or Case Keenum.
Courtney Cronin @CourtneyRCronin · 1d ago · View on X
Bears coach Ben Johnson has ruled out Caleb Williams for Week 4 vs. the Jets. But he won’t say who is starting — Tyson Bagent or Case Keenum — on Sunday. “I know both of them are well prepared to play and win a game for us,” Johnson said.
Adam Jahns @adamjahns · 1d ago · View on X
Good news for Swift. In other news, Caleb Williams ruled out.
Ian Rapoport @RapSheet · 1d ago · View on X
Injury ripple · Week 4
Caleb Williams out for Bears; Bagent, Keenum, Moss in mix at QB
Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is out with a hamstring injury, and per the Sun-Times he has a Grade 2 hamstring strain, with other outlets reporting a 3-4 week timeline. There are no games without Williams to compare, so this note leans on his own workload and what the backup options have shown as passers.
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Fantasy football · Week 4
Our own start/sit calls for every player, with a projected score, the range of likely outcomes and the reasons spelled out. Built from usage, matchup, Vegas lines and injuries. How we rank
Ruled out — find a replacement.
Why we say out
- Out — hamstring injury.
- Averaging 28 pass attempts a game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 16.8 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~24 pts
- Vegas line
- CHI favored by 3.5
- Game total
- 43.5
- NYJ vs QBs
- 12% more points
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Age
24
Height
6'1"
Weight
226 lb
College
USC; Oklahoma
Experience
2 seasons
Draft
2024 · Pick #1 (CHI)
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 83.3?
Efficient passing drove this grade: he added a lot of expected points per dropback against tougher-than-average defenses and completed more passes than expected. It's a small sample of 60 dropbacks over 2 games, so a few plays can swing it, and his games ranged from 96.6 to 24.7.
Lifting the grade
- EPA per dropback of +0.356 expected points per play ranked 3rd of 27 QBs, with extra credit of 0.141 for tough defenses.
- Completion percentage over expected of +6.2 points ranked 7th of 27.
- Week 1 vs CAR: a 47-yard deep right pass to Odunze (+3.8 expected points), plus a 22-yard touchdown to Kmet.
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 3. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
0.215
Success rate
45%
WPA (sum)
0.44
Opponent adj.
0.142
Plays graded
60
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 2 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats| Week | Time to throw | Aggressiveness | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.16s | 13.8% | +11.4% |
| 2 | 3.71s | 15.4% | -5.7% |
What do these mean?
- Time to throw:
- Average seconds from snap to release.
- Aggressiveness:
- Share of throws into tight coverage, with a defender within one yard of the receiver.
- CPOE:
- Completion percentage over expected. Compares actual completions to what the difficulty of each throw predicts.
- Expected comp %:
- The completion percentage the throws would be expected to produce.
- Completed air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on completions.
- Intended air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on all attempts.
- Air yds differential:
- Completed air yards minus intended air yards. Negative means completions come shorter than the throws attempted.
- Air yds to sticks:
- How far the average throw travels past (or short of) the first-down marker.
Next Gen Stats data via nflverse (CC BY 4.0). Updated after games are final, not live, and covers QB, RB, WR and TE.