Need some advice, folks. I'm in the 2-week championship game, 1st half (Week 16) is in the books. I have a comfortable lead at half.
Hurts is my starting QB. Caleb Williams is the backup (who plays Thursday night). What do YOU do this week?
1. Start Williams, get *some* points for sure.
2. Start Hurts, risk the bagel, but higher payoff (probably).
I know that this is an Assistant Coach question, but cut a guy some slack. It's the championship. TIA.
It's a tough call. I have not been following Hurts practice reports. It is not unheard of for a player to be pulled from a game with concussion symptoms and return the next week but it's probably a lesser probability than missing the following week.
Anyone have numbers in this?
Either way, I think it is reasonable to expect more than *some* points from Caleb at this point. Since they fired Waldron Caleb is averaging 251 yards & 2 TDs per game with another 27 rush yards per game. He's thrown 2 or more TDs in four of the last five games.
Obviously you want to go with Hurts but if he doesn't at least get a limited practice tomorrow Caleb appears to be a solid backup at this point.