MOBILE, ALA.: New Browns defensive coordinator Gregg Williams vowed Thursday to repair the motor of linebacker Jamie Collins if it ever sputters.
The Browns are ecstatic about retaining Collins on Monday with a four-year, $50 million contract because they consider him a young, talented, versatile difference maker on defense.
The critics of Collins, though, accuse him of taking plays off at times.
After the Browns traded what’s expected to be a third-round compensatory pick in April’s draft to the New England Patriots in exchange for Collins on Oct. 31, former Browns and Patriots executive Mike Lombardi called the 2015 Pro Bowl selection “very talented, but very moody, very inconsistent with his effort” on the Bill Simmons Podcast.