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Even before he started high school, Caleb Williams showed he was 'a special kid'
Williams will be the Bears' starting QB as a rookie. What can we learn about how he handled the role as a high school freshman?
That didn’t change as his profile grew, either. With Williams as its freshman starter, Gonzaga reached the WCAC championship, losing to St. John’s College High School.
There were superstar flashes from Williams throughout the season. The scholarship offers from powerhouse programs came in after it. With each one, his teammates would “bow down” to him as a joke. That’s part of life in an all-boys school.
But expectations for Williams and Gonzaga increased for his sophomore year. And now they were all fueled by a title-game loss.
“He was just as emotional as some of the seniors,” Marshall said. “There’s a lot of underclassmen who aren’t showing emotion. And he was in the locker room and he’s crying with the seniors. He was super close to all of us even his freshman year. So he realized that if he was going to take that next step, he was going to have to become even more of a leader than he was.