{"id":14839,"date":"2017-03-09T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=14839"},"modified":"2017-03-10T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:04:12","slug":"brandon-williams-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/09\/brandon-williams-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Williams Re-Signs With the Baltimore Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defensive tackle <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=WillBr02,WillBr04,WillBr01,WillBr07,WillBr95&amp;search=Brandon+Williams&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Williams<\/a><\/strong> has signed a\u00a0new\u00a0contract to remain a member of the Baltimore Ravens. The new deal lasts five years, and pays out $53 million, with $27.5 million in guarantees. Williams spent the first four years of his NFL career with the franchise and both teams clearly wanted to maintain that relationship. During that span, Williams developed a reputation as one of the NFL&#8217;s most underrated talents, helping to make the Ravens run defense one of the league&#8217;s best. The 28-year-old had a rough 2016, but the future looks bright.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ravens are re-signing DT Brandon Williams, per source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/840014086620512256\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ravens?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Ravens<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_SportsTrust\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@_sportstrust<\/a> client <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brandonw66\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@brandonW66<\/a> contract 5yrs, $54M, $27.5M guar. Highest paid NT in NFL<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/840016765971226624\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBrandon Williams Re-Signs With the Baltimore Ravens<\/h2>\n<p>Brandon Williams had a rough 2016 season, but then again, everyone on the Baltimore Ravens did. In the two seasons before, Pro Football Focus gave Williams really positive grades, 84 and 85 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN.com named Brandon Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/blog\/baltimore-ravens\/post\/_\/id\/34077\/underrated-no-longer-brandon-williams-tops-free-agent-list\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their best free agent<\/a> this year, and the\u00a0Ravens\u00a0have to consider themselves fortunate to have been able to retain him. Williams isn&#8217;t an elite pass rusher, but he chews up blocks, and is extremely effective against the run. Considering that Williams didn&#8217;t even go to a division one school, the success he&#8217;s had and to be ranked so high is a great honor.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next?<\/h3>\n<p>The Baltimore Ravens will miss Williams, but they already have his replacement. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PierMi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Pierce<\/a><\/strong> played well for the Ravens in spots last year, and it looks like he&#8217;ll step up and take Williams&#8217; place. At the end of the day, Williams played his way into a more expensive contract, but an off year made him expendable.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore has a history of dominant defensive tackles. From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SiraTo20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Siragusa<\/a><\/strong> to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/N\/NgatHa20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haloti Ngata<\/a><\/strong>, and now Williams to Pierce, the purple and black have always had talent inside. Is Williams a great player or just a product of Baltimore&#8217;s front seven? There&#8217;s only one way to find out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/630209134\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: inline-block; position: absolute;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/630209134?et=4pI6hhhESPhpdYnOjsjr4w&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=8ESJzn4sTKWHeogvQIhyNOqJubzu4XcSH8BN1mzuGX0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Williams, the star nose tackle of the Baltimore Ravens has been successful over his four NFL seasons, and was much sought after as a free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1347,"featured_media":14840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10],"tags":[174,455,61,40],"class_list":["post-14839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-ravens","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-brandon-williams","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"David McCaffery","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}