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Originally Posted by Shaid
I'd really love to see the plays you are talking about here.
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Yeah, I feel like Williams is actually a pretty good receiving back on swings/wheels. Where he doesn't excel as much as CEH is when he has to put his foot in the ground and change direction.
So a typical 'arrow route' that you'll see in Madden (stab route, angle route, whatever you want to call it) that has the RB changing direction hard and cutting over the middle - those aren't things that Williams typically seems to do terribly well. But man, he's really damn good on the wheel routes and no worse than average on simple flat/flare routes.
Now you try to line him up in the slot and give him a full route tree, he'll come up lacking. That's something CEH seems more capable of than Williams. But for the majority of the routes most RBs run, Williams is more than capable. But/for the fact that we didn't have a conventional 2 down RB, Williams skill-set would've put him in a 3rd down RB role. You don't do that with a guy that can't catch the ball out of the backfield.
Again - I feel like this is another example of running down Williams to boost the CEH pick and it's just not necessary. The idea that Williams isn't a well above average pass-catching back simply isn't supported by what we saw out of him or why he was brought here to begin with and initially asked to do. Williams is, at worst, a good 3rd down back mis-cast as an every down player. He most assuredly isn't some slug in the passing game who's indifference required we spend a 1st rounder on a RB to replace.