Caleb Williams Top Ten Throws of 2025

Everybody has been wanting to see it, so I decided to do it.

The amount of jaw-dropping throws Caleb Williams has had this season has been remarkable. Every week, he seems to come up with an amazing throw that you think, “Well, that can’t be topped,” and then a week later, he does.

These are my thoughts on his 10 best throws of the 2025 season. There are plenty of great ones that were left on the cutting room floor, and I’m sure plenty of people will disagree with the order of which ones made it and which ones didn’t (feel free to argue in the comments).

Here’s my best attempt to assemble Caleb Williams 10 best throws of 2025.

10. Colston Loveland Game Winner vs Bengals

I felt this throw needed to be recognized because of the precise moment he released the ball. It’s not his most athletic throw of the season, but it’s the timing of the throw. Williams hits Loveland in a sea of Bengals, where if he throws it a tick earlier or a tick later, the result would have been an incomplete pass or an interception. When you consider the pressure with less than 30 seconds to go, Williams needed to deliver a strike, and he did just that.

9. Flea Flicker to Luther Burden vs Cowboys

I think a lot of Bears fans would expect this one to be higher, and, in the moment, watching this one live, I would have thought this would have been a top-three play on the season. You don’t think about it much at this point, but this Bears game was critical to the Bears’ turnaround. Who knows what happens if they fall to 0-3? Williams’ coralling of the subpar pitch is what makes this one even more special.

8. Jahdae Walker Game Tying Catch vs Packers

This one has already gotten lost a little, thanks to what Caleb did not too long after this one, and some might say, “Yeah, it’s great, but he was wide open.” That’s true, he did finish wide open, but if you look at where Walker was when Caleb released the football, you’ll realize that he broke open after the throw and was covered by two Packers at the release point. Williams saw it and delivered it, despite being under significant pressure.

7. Cole Kmet ices game vs Eagles

It’s funny how effortlessly Williams rolls to his left and still manages these throws. The Bears were “frauds” in everyone’s minds until this game. The Bears went into Philadelphia and dominated the defending Super Bowl champions. This throw puts the game away as Williams rolls left and lofts a fadeaway, soft catchable ball that only can fall into the hands of Cole Kmet.

6. Threads the needle to OZ vs Packers

I think this is Williams’ best throw of the season that nobody ever talks about. Perhaps it was because the Bears eventually lost this game, perhaps it was because it was only 1-yard out, but Williams rolls to his right, and throws a pass that somehow threads a needle right past a Packers defender and into the hands of a diving Olamide Zaccheaus.

5. DJ Moore One-Handed Catch vs Ravens

This is the throw that I think was really impressive and gets lost in the story of the year. Perhaps it’s because they lost this game, perhaps it’s because DJ Moore didn’t get out of bounds at the end of the play, but Williams spins with two guys in his face and fires this incredible ball across the field, and Moore makes an incredible one-handed catch.

4. DJ Moore “The Catch II” vs Browns

Caleb Williams throw in this one mimicked arguably the most legendary throw and catch in NFL history, Joe Montana to Dwight Clark, “The Catch.” Moore snags the ball in the back corner of the end zone as the ball is just out of reach from a Browns defender.

3. Game Winner to DJ Moore in OT vs Packers

We certainly thought this was going to be the throw of the year, but at the time, we didn’t know what Caleb Williams had in store for us in the playoffs. Tom Brady called this his favorite throw of the year, a brilliant throw to Moore in the perfect spot that tops off an incredible come-from-behind victory against the Bears’ rivals in overtime.

2. Rome Odunze on 4th down vs Packers, Wild Card Weekend

You could argue this should be number one because this resulted in the Bears coming back and winning this game. If this ball falls incomplete, the Bears’ season is over. But Williams on 4th down, giving us a glimpse of the Air Jordan logo and dropping this one into Rome Odunze’s lap as he’s surrounded by 4 Green Bay Packers was one of the best throws in the history of the league, and yet, somehow he tops it one week later.

1. Game-Tying Heave to Cole Kmet vs Rams

I hemmed and hawed over this one. Do I put the throw to tie it up against the Rams’ number one, or do I go with the Odunze throw? I decided, in the end, to go with the Kmet play. It’s so damn improbable. It still defies logic that it happened. Had the Bears won this game, I think this play eclipses “The Catch” as the greatest non-Super Bowl play in NFL history.