Players toil through pains great and small on the football field. They rarely want to talk about them. Ryan Williams is different. The Arizona Cardinals running back admits he played through last season in a state of fear, worried that his surgically repaired right knee wouldn't hold up. That feeling hit hard in Week 2, when he heard quarterback Kevin Kolb dial up a "39 Toss," asking Williams to run to his left against the New England Patriots. "That was my least favorite play, because running to the outside, my whole right side was exposed," Williams told The Arizona Republic on Thursday. "As soon as I saw (linebacker Brandon) Spikes coming to hit me, I curled up and forgot about the ball. It was something where I was trying to protect my leg instead of trying to protect the football. "It's a scary sight being a running back and being scared to run the ball. That's something that no running back should feel. I was pretty much scared all last year to get the ball in my hands." Williams called his season-ending shoulder injury in October a "blessing in disguise" for the chance to shut it down and heal the knee. Source: NFL.com
What a snitch why is it a bad feeling to be running the ball and be scared, you know big people are going to come and try to light you up, not intentionally injure you but try to hit you as hard as they can. Why shouldn't they, thats what their job is hitting you, and your job is to sack up and not be scared to freaking run the football.
