Caleb Williams responds to critics after hamstring injury: 'My character's been attacked'

Williams participated fully in consecutive practices, but the Bears quarterback said he has not yet been cleared to return to game action

Following consecutive practices of full participation, Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is on track for a potential return in Week 6 from the hamstring injury he sustained in the second game of the season. It remains to be seen whether he will enter Sunday's matchup against the Atlanta Falcons with an injury designation, but he said on Thursday that he still does not know if he will play. While the understanding outside the Bears' facility is that Williams sustained a Grade 2 hamstring strain in the Week 2 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, the third-year quarterback pushed back against reports detailing the extent of the injury. He said he felt a pop in his hamstring at the time of the injury and described it as a tear rather than a strain.

"It was a hamstring tear and a pretty serious one," Williams said. "We got a grade, but I wouldn't say it's deserved to be put out there after all the false ones. So next question." "There's nothing that has come out that has been right about what it is and what it has been," Williams said. "That's been fun to deal with. So I would say from y'all's side and things like that is being able to report it and go through it in the right way and right