Bears' Caleb Williams reveals he was 'fuming' after Ben Johnson catfishing prank

Chicago Bears backmost Caleb Williams said helium was "fuming" aft getting pranked by respective kids into believing Detroit Lions violative coordinator Ben Johnson had accepted the Bears’ caput coaching job. 

Williams went viral this week aft a video surfaced showing a radical of young kids texting him arsenic Johnson. 

The rookie quarterback, believing the kids, jumped connected a FaceTime call, wherever the prank was revealed. 

Williams appeared to laughter disconnected the brushwood connected the call, but successful an quality connected the "St. Brown" podcast with Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, helium revealed conscionable however upset helium was aft the prank. 

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"That full nighttime I was getting texts. I was evidently getting spam calls from each my friends, like, ‘No way,’" Williams recalled.  "I didn’t respond to 1 text. I was truthful mad. Pissed!" 

Williams said helium knew the kids were filming and was "trying not to flip out," but it was a antithetic communicative erstwhile helium hung up. 

"When I got disconnected the call, I was fuming. I wanted to smash immoderate s---. I was fuming," helium said, laughing astir it. 

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Williams doesn’t cognize however they got his number, which helium claims to person had astatine slightest 15 years. 

"The substance was truthful official. Like I’ve gotten that substance from assemblage coaches and different coaches earlier getting drafted and each of that. … It looked huffy professional," Williams said, adding helium has since changed his telephone number.   

"I don’t know. I’ve had the fig for astir apt 15 years. I don’t person it nary more. New number. But I’ve had it for 15 years and so. I don’t know. Somebody must’ve gave it to them. Somebody must’ve said something, oregon helium got fortunate and conscionable dialed the number." 

Despite his contiguous absorption to the prank, Williams did springiness the young fans immoderate credit. 

"I ain’t gonna lie. It was a classical prank. It was a Grade A, S-tier prank. I gotta springiness them props. I wasn’t locked successful in the moment." 

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