Staying at the same hotel during minicamp, Keenan Allen and Caleb Williams had extra time to get to know one another.
Chicago’s new receiver and prized quarterback helped each other learn the playbook when they weren’t either watching the NBA playoffs or playing Monopoly Deal. The connection between the six-time Pro Bowler and the No. 1 overall draft pick could go a long way toward determining whether the Bears make a much-anticipated jump.
“I’m not a guy who masters the playbook by any means sitting at home just looking at the playbook,” Allen said Saturday, after the team’s first training camp practice. “That’s not how I learn it. I’m a trial and error guy. I learn through mistakes. Just being able to sit there with him, he’d call out the play, I’d draw it up, vice versa, while we’re sitting there watching the NBA playoffs.”
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