The Packers had a shortage at the cornerback position, after other forays into free agency didn’t work out. He’s a veteran leader for an otherwise mostly young position group. He’s played in a Mike Pettine defense, and he knows – and exemplifies – everything it means to be a Packer.
But however valid those items, they don’t address what really matters most, to both the Packers and Williams.
“I don’t think they would have just signed me if I couldn’t play, you know?” Williams said in his first reunion with the Green Bay media on Tuesday, after three years elsewhere.