So Tell Me About Zack Williams... please?

Williams caught quite a bit of flack for his problems with the snap. With the team operating out of the shotgun about 90 percent of the time, clearly it was an issue. Typically it was too low, forcing Jeff Tuel to retrieve a rolling snap or look down to find the ball — which is obviously a problem as it takes his eyes off the reads and handicaps his performance.

I don’t know whether the broken hand report is true. I can tell you I’ve spoken to him often and been around him quite a bit, both before and after games, and never noticed a cast or him favoring his hand. I’m also not sure his problems snapping to the shotgun will be relevant; NFL teams won’t be running the spread, the amount of snaps to a shotgun formation are significantly lower and, in fact, he may not be a center at the NFL level.

Williams is surprisingly athletic, as evidenced by his Combine numbers. He has deceptive speed that can work in short bursts and has a fair amount of agility. To me, it screams guard. He was playing center at WSU out of necessity; Kenny Alfred graduated, WSU needed a center, Williams was quite capable. But in the NFL, I could see him being a guard and being solid at that spot.

Williams was healthy in 2010 and didn’t show any ill-effects from the injury. Bottom line: He’s a good kid that could be a solid backup on the interior offensive line. He may be able to handle backup center duties, but I’d expect him to see time at guard more often than not.

And even then, they were just low, not necessarily bad (I don’t remember Tuel having to chase one down that often, or even at all). He wasn’t gonna take any crap from anyone either, and he was always there protecting his QB, picking up more than a few personal fouls over the course of the year. He wasn’t punching people, just standing up for his guy.

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