This was it, the injury Aaron Williams feared would turn out the lights on his NFL career. He had been hurt before. He had experienced plenty of “stingers,” those moments of temporary numbness that football players often have after a big hit. This was different.
There was no feeling in the entire left side of Williams’ body. The Buffalo Bills’ medical staff kept touching and poking and asking, “Do you feel that? How about that? Anything now?”
No. No. No. Not a thing.
“It was scary,” Williams said Friday of being on the ground in the southwest corner of Ralph Wilson Stadium in the third quarter of the Sept.