IN PHOTOS: Inside Bears rookie Caleb Williams’ $13,000,000 Lake Forest mansion
Caleb Williams has a new place to call home. The Chicago Bears rookie quarterback has been looking for a new home since he turned pro, and now he has found the right place for him
On Thursday, reports emerged that he had bought a lakeside mansion in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest for $13 million (according to Realtor.com).
Based on the images below, the three-acre property is very luxurious, boasting the following amenities, among others:
- Infinity pool overlooking Lake Michigan
- Home theater
- Billiard table
- Arcade room
- Basketball/hockey court
Details of Caleb Williams' rookie contract
That entire property (at least in face value) is easily a third of Williams' current contract, which he signed in July - or just as preseason camp was beginning.
It's worth $39.49 million over four years with a signing bonus of $25.5 million, the entire amount being fully guaranteed. It also includes a fifth-year option that the team may invoke two months after the nominal final year begins.
Justin Fields reveals first impressions of eventual Bears successor Caleb Williams
One notable thing about today's Bears is their quick turnover rate when it comes to quarterbacks.
In 2017, the team drafted Mitch Trubisky, who gave them a division title and two playoff appearances but regressed in his third season and was abandoned once his contract expired.
Next was Justin Fields, who failed to make the playoffs at all before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers to make room for Caleb Williams. That makes for a quick turnaround between first-round quarterbacks: four years and three.
However, here's an interesting thing: in 2020, Fields, then set to begin what would eventually become his final season at Ohio State had met Williams, then a high school senior, during the Elite 11, a quarterback competition.
Speaking about the experience on defensive tackle and fellow Steeler Cam Heyward's Not Just Football podcast, he said:
"He was light and day better than everybody else. I mean, arm was live. It was no comparison. Him and J.J. McCarthy (Minnesota Vikings quarterback) were the best two when I went there and went to go see him in Nashville."
Fields would advance as far as the national title game, where the Buckeyes lost to Alabama. The next season, Williams began his college career at Oklahoma.