USC Trojans quarterback Caleb Williams is widely expected to be the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, but he made a pretty unorthodox move at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. While he will be meeting with teams and participating in pre-draft interviews, Williams declined to do medical testing at the combine, seemingly becoming the first player in the history of the draft to make such a decision.
During his press conference on Friday morning, Caleb Williams opened up about that decision a little bit, clarifying that he will indeed participate in medical testing with the teams considering drafting him, but he just is not doing it for all 32 teams at the NFL Combine.
“For the medical stuff, I’ll be doing the medical stuff — just not here in Indy. I’ll be doing it at the team interviews,” Williams said. “You know, not 32 teams can draft me. There’s only one of me. And so, the teams that I go to for my visits, those teams will have the medical [information], and that’ll be it.”
Williams is expected to be selected with the No. 1 overall pick, which is currently held by the Chicago Bears, but it sounds like he’ll be meeting with a variety of teams before the draft.
“I plan on visiting a good amount of teams,” Williams said. “I don’t exactly know what the plan is with that, just because I’ve met with teams that I didn’t know I was going to meet with when I got here.”
It’s certainly a unique way to handle the pre-draft process.
