{"id":233,"date":"2025-11-28T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:54:32","slug":"caleb-williamss-unique-approach-fewer-sacks-despite-holding-the-ball-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Williams&#8217;s Unique Approach: Fewer Sacks Despite Holding the Ball Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is significantly reducing his sack rate.,This improvement comes despite him holding the ball longer on average than any quarterback since 2012.The Chicago Bears have emerged as one of the NFL&#8217;s most improved teams, with second-year quarterback Caleb Williams being a primary catalyst for this turnaround, particularly due to a notable reduction in sacks.<\/p>\n<p>In a development that has puzzled observers, Williams is holding the ball longer on average than any quarterback with a minimum of 350 dropbacks recorded since 2012. This is a stark contrast to his rookie season in 2024, where he was sacked 68 times, despite holding the ball for less time.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217;s sack rate has dramatically decreased from 10.8 percent, which was the second-worst in the league last season, to 4.8 percent, ranking as the sixth-best entering the team&#8217;s Week 13 game on Friday against the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is significantly reducing his sack rate.,This improvement comes despite him holding the ball longer on average than any quarterback since 2012.The Chicago Bears have emerged as one of the NFL&#8217;s most improved teams, with second-year quarterback Caleb Williams being a primary catalyst for this turnaround, particularly due to a notable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post01.exeyezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}