Scott compares Williams' playmaking ability to Patrick Mahomes |
LAKE FOREST, I.L. - The Chicago Bears may have the best wide receiver trio they have ever had with Keenan Allen, DJ Moore and Rome Odunze. However, all of the buzz about this trio seems to overshadow the wide receiver Chicago drafted in the 2023 NFL Draft, Tyler Scott.
He intends to take advantage of every opportunity that comes his way leading up to the season. “I think for me, it’s just whenever my opportunity comes, whether it’s two plays, one year here, making the best of those plays. That’s the best thing I can do because that’s the thing I can control,” Scott said. “I have faith in the coaching staff, that they’re going to put me in positions to show what I can do and when they do, I got to be able to show what I can do.” In Scott’s rookie season, Chicago did not have a deep wide receiver room. Moore was the clear number-one receiver and the best example for Scott to learn from and improve his game. Now, Scott has Allen to learn from, as well as DeAndre Carter and Dante Pettis, who also have a lot of game experience. “We got a lot of character in the room as well with just different guys. But, I think we have a really competitive group overall. I love the guys that are in there. We got a lot of age in there, too … We got a lot of years in the room. At the same time, we got some young guys as well,” Scott said. “So, I feel like it’s just a great complement as far as experience and youngness coming together because us young guys can learn from those older guys and vice versa. So, I think (general manager) Ryan Poles did a great job just putting the room together.” In Scott’s second season, the Bears now have a new starting quarterback in rookie Caleb Williams. The Heisman winner has made an impression on Scott even though he typically plays with the second team in training camp and thus works more with Tyson Bagent, who was also a rookie in the 2023 season. “One thing that I’ve seen is he just kind of put his head down and worked, and one thing he did was he learned to follow before he started to learn to lead and so, I think for him, that’s huge because you get a lot of respect for a lot of guys that you’re not coming in here rightfully so, being number one over pick, maybe one of the greatest college quarterbacks ever, coming in with a mindset of, “I’m going to humble myself and be a follower first before I start being that type of a leader.’ And so, just him being able to connect on that point. He’s super approachable. He’s a guy (that will talk) to you after practice. He’s got a whole bunch of character about him. He wears his character on his sleeve, especially in the locker room. I’m pretty close to him as far as our lockers and so, just being around him, it’s cool. It’s cool the type of dude he is, and I think that just makes it better. You see the plays he makes … You just shake your head, and then you get in the locker room, see what type of person he is, just makes it even better,” Scott said. “I think within football, there are rules within the game, and once you get outside those rules, that’s what I feel like makes Patrick Mahomes so good is he breaks down and kind of gets rid of all your rules when it comes to playing and so when you get to that space, it’s like you can’t coach that. You can’t really coach around when he gets outside of the rules of football, and so, I feel like you see a little (of) that with Caleb … I feel like with him, just being able to extend the play, throw on the run, throwing (under) pressure, then it kind of just gets kind of like backyard football, that’s something that you really can’t coach against and I think it’s tough for defenses. So, I think you definitely see that with him” Chicago fans will see Scott often throughout the preseason as he fights to show the offensive coaching staff what he is capable of and his value in the receiver room.
