Caleb Williams is learning how to be a quarterback, but he is also learning how to be a leader. He was thrown into the fire of the 2021 college football season at Oklahoma on short notice, inserted into the Texas game after OU teammate Spencer Rattler struggled to start that particular contest. Williams watched from the sidelines for the first month of that 2021 campaign. He didn’t get to play a full-length season last year. This will be his first wire-to-wire season as a collegiate quarterback, a point worth reminding everyone.
Though Williams was a highly-rated player — the very best in the transfer portal when he hit the market — it’s worth absorbing the point that he still has so much room to grow. His process of becoming an elite quarterback is hardly completed; it is still in its early stages, and USC is likely to get two seasons from him.
The journey is only just beginning, and Williams knows he needs to improve in so many ways. He told Robert Griffin III of ESPN during the USC spring game that “Football is about moments … you have to win the moment.” Williams displayed an awareness that success and failure in football come down to split-second decisions which come from intense preparation and thorough understanding of what to do.
When mistakes are made, however, turning the page is the only way to own the next moment which comes along.
This is the mindset of a leader. Caleb Williams hasn’t fully absorbed it yet, but it’s clear he’s trying to get there as soon as he can.
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