Shawn Williams is a lot like his defense, the one defensive coordinator Paul Guenther crafted into the best Bengals scoring defense of all-time last year.
Williams is a no-frills-all-business-down-home-versatile sort and that’s just the way Guenther likes to play his scheme. Guenther’s focus is not allowing points. Yards, and first downs are OK, just not points and he does it with a raft of packages that can match up in a chess game with the offense.
So it helps to have guys like Williams, who like safeties Chris Crocker and Taylor Mays before him, can bounce between corner and safety or linebacker and the secondary with the versatility that then defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer craved.