After it was revealed that the Chicago Bears are finalizing a deal to hire Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson as their next head coach, fans

Just 10 days earlier, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams had been pranked into believing his team had hired Johnson, when a group of teenagers sent him an official-looking text message pretending to be the former Lions offensive coordinator.

Following a protracted search, the Chicago Bears hired former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson as their next head coach. Johnson was considered arguably the single-best candidate on the market, and landing him is a coup for a Bears franchise that has desperately needed an injection of some kind of life for quite some time.