Will Virginia Tech RB Ryan Williams Turn Pro After This Season?

As a guy who likes to see guys leave when they’re on top of their game, I hope he’ll be back. If he was eligible to go at the end of last season, I would have said he should have gone. But now, with the injury and the production, I would have to think that the water is pretty murky right now. If he REALLY turns it on and puts up crazy stats the rest of the way he should go, but as he even admitted, he will not have the hamstring back to 100%, and as the workload goes, he will not have enough carries to put up the kind of numbers pro scouts want to see. There are just so many perceived weaknesses right now for Williams to overcome. McShay and Kiper will be talking about “injury concerns” because if you have only had one injury in your personal history of athletics (which we all have had) you are deemed injury prone. I can’t tell you how tired I was of hearing that a year ago. It was like EVERY SINGLE pick! And then he has to face his lack of production even when healthy. They will look at his ypc avg. if it doesn’t rise SIGNIFICANTLY and say “this is a guy who cannot run between the tackles.” And lastly, even though Ryan Williams certainly pissed off every member of the offensive line (he must have, because they just don’t block when he’s in the game), the NFL scouts and franchises covet backs who can make things happen when the blocking breaks down. Although our blocking has had a mind%$&* of sorts (not just an average breakdown) many times this season when Ryan touches the ball, he still has yet to be TRULY electric, breaking tackles, lowering his head, and most importantly moving his legs. If it were me as an NFL scout, I would advise him to come back another year. I have seen too many guys come out too early and amount to nothing, and I wouldn’t see him projected in the first round. I think he’s first round talent no doubt, but trying to stay objective, he’s a second rounder at best right now. Yeah Sam Bradford proved that you can make an entirely stupid choice (like the choice that you’d rather throw to Donnie Avery than Calvin Johnson) and still be picked #1, but Sam Bradford won the Heisman. Ryan Williams (believe it or not) is still somewhat unknown nationally. And the 30 for 30 reference sounds like the movie Friday Night Lights. Remember when Booby Miles was supposed to be ALL THAT and a bag of potato chips (which is funny because Tim McGraw’s fumble-prone son Billingsly was actually the star and Booby Miles was the fullback) and then got injured and EVERY SINGLE OFFER came off the board? Well, that may have been the case in the 80’s, but because of medical advances it’s usually not the case anymore. Tech basketball sophomore SG Ben Boggs compound fractured his leg in his senior year of HS and was at Tech 8 months later back on the floor. In summation, he should stay.