Jared Verse spoke about what he's seen from Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, and what the Rams defense is focused on to stop the Bears offense.
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. -- Los Angeles Rams lineback Jred Verse is looking forward to facing Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams.
“Yeah I mean Caleb he obviously he’s a Heisman winner for a reason he was the number one pick, I have a lot of respect for him," verse said on Thursday. "He’s very athletic, he’s very nimble, he’s very able to get away from anything you bring to him.”
The 25 year old Jared Verse, who was named AP Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2024, and recently selected to the 2026 Prowl Bowl, is known for being a vocal leader amongst the defense. His ability to read an offense is impressive, and he is clearly using those skills of his to prepare for the Bears bit by bit.
Between the regular season and the postseason the Chicago Bears have come up with seven comeback wins. To be clear, their most recent comeback win came as the Bears made up for their early mistakes against the Packers and scored 25 points in the 4th quarter alone to win their Wild Card Round matchup. Verse clearly understands what Chicago’s offense is capable of, and he connects it to the identity makeup of that team.
“Yeah I mean Chicago they have a very good culture over there, you know they’re gonna keep going it doesn’t matter if they’re down it doesn’t matter if they’re up, they’re gonna keep pushing. You know obviously the seven comebacks we’ve spoken about, that's something that they obviously live by, like they don’t care if they’re down”… Verse went on to say, “basketball it takes a lot of plays to come back, football if you're down by three scores it takes three plays to come back.”
Verse is right here, although his example was hypothetically coming back from three scores, in the Rams Wild Card Round game, they managed a comeback win with less than three minutes left in the game. In the first round of the playoffs, Verse had a tackle and led the Rams defense in quarterback hits with two. Verse mentioned that they are focusing on stopping Williams’s ability to scrabble. He pointed to the Rams regular season game against the Panthers as the moment they learned that people can run the ball on you if you don’t come prepared.
“We don't lose, we learn,” said Rams Head Coach Sean McVay earlier on in the season. It seems that this sentiment is shared amongst the Rams defense. Not only did Verse express lessons learned, but he also shared that Rams safety Quentin Lake was going to hold him to never feeling the way he did when their season was ended last year.
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