Earlier today the Trent Williams saga finally came to an end, when the Redskins traded the left tackle to the 49ers. Right at the end we heard the Rams could emerge as a suitor, and apparently Los Angeles did in fact kick the tires.
The Rams, who currently have 38-year-old Andrew Whitworth at left tackle and Rob Havenstein at right tackle, were in the race, and head coach Sean McVay “dabbled” with reuniting with Williams as a guard, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network tweets. McVay previously coached Williams when he was Washington’s offensive coordinator. McVay didn’t sound too happy about losing out to his division rival, saying, “thanks for reminding me. I need to go drink a couple of more beers,” when asked about the deal, via Andrew Siciliano of NFL Network (Twitter link).
A proposed trade to the Vikings apparently would’ve come with an extension, but Williams torpedoed that deal earlier this morning. Now, it doesn’t sound like he’s getting an extension anytime soon. 49ers GM John Lynch said the team will let 2020 play out “and see what happens after the season,” per Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports (Twitter link). Indeed, head coach Kyle Shanahan said that Williams himself made it clear that he wanted to wait on an extension and to earn a new, lucrative pact.
“Trent has been out of football for a year and a half, and Trent made it clear to everyone he wants to come back and didn’t want to do a deal right away,” Shanahan said (via Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com). “He wanted to play and try to get back into it and see where he was at with the rest of the league and pick up where he left off.”
Of course, that’s quite a contrast from earlier reports suggesting that Williams not only wanted out of Washington, he also wanted a brand new contract that puts him at the top of the LT market. But perhaps the opportunity to leave the Redskins and to get a fresh start with the defending NFC champs mitigated his financial demands for the time being.
Williams sat out all of last season due to his dispute with the Redskins, but before that he was one of the league’s best tackles. He’ll slide in as an excellent replacement for Joe Staley, who elected to hang up his cleats earlier today.
McVay should be pleased at the outcome. Donald vs Williams twice a year is going to be completely one sided in the Rams favor.
true for Donald against pretty much everybody
Rams run a 3-4 defense where the defensive tackle lines up in B gaps and therefore is primarily the guards responsibility. Donald did have 3.5 sacks v SF last year. Staley gave up no sacks to Donald. Staley was out first game and gave up no sacks in second game. Staley graded out about the same as Williams in 2018 but again because of 3-4, Donald would likely get his sacks versus guards and probably not Williams.
So Donald won’t be beating williams as much as he’d beat guard play.
But like robot said, I doubt mcvay will care who the Niner tackle is, he however might care who the guards are. Or he might be upset the Niner Oline would lead to a better record than the rams.
I don’t put much stock in some of these grades (particularly those from PFF). The eye test tells me Staley on a bad day is still better than Williams can be now. Donald won’t be getting the Williams matchup constantly as you pointed out, but when he does, Trent will resemble a turnstile.
Dude, you admitted on another post that you hadn’t heard of aiyuk tho he played 20 miles from you at ASU. So we should care what you “don’t put much stock in”. Ok. Is it just a coincidence that he’s rated high AND he’s a 7 time pro bowler? And does YOUR eye test mean anything?
Ur clearly a rams fan. Hannah and Slater. In your words, anyone who doesn’t have them in top 5 tackle ranking is clueless according to you.
Ur team has major issues. Has gone from a super bowl to the worst in their division. They were pathetic against the patriots in the super bowl. Embarrassing in fact.
The only time williams will match up with Donald will be blocking down on runs or having to reach block. And reach blocking is difficult no matter who the D tackle is.
You don’t know football and you base ur comments on how you feel. It’s your feelings that drive ur opinions. Not anything concrete.
You say the niners will have a”major regression”. I asked for actual reasons and another poster gave a couple. I in fact mentioned how tough the division will be and predicted a slight regression. 11-5 maybe. You just offered ur feelings.
Last long response from me. I’ll be offering my usual responsefrom here on out for you…
Damn, ur an idiot
Just another greedy player who overplayed his hand. Bill O’Brien wasn’t even dumb enough to get involved.
That’s because he was even dumber giving Tunsil $22M/yr. after giving up 2 1st round draft picks to get him. He’s barely a top 10 tackle in the league!
Was he supposed to not extend him after giving up that much draft capital?
Dont worry about since it’s non of your business.
Let him play, you don’t have to watch his games