Bengals extend Shawn Williams

[Essex Johnson]

(05-17-2016, 12:15 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: His deal is very comparable to that of guys like TJ Ward, Mike Mitchell and Antoine Bethea.  It's right below, and not at all far off from guys like Eric Weddle and Morgan Burnett.

It seems like a bit of head scratcher to be in such a rush to pay a play with 4 career starts a TJ Ward level contract. 

To each their own, but I would have rather paid a know commodity in Reggie Nelson for another season, and revaluated Williams's situation after the year. 

Here is the problem with that thought,, Nelson was not signing a 1 year deal with us or  anyone... also we only see players in a game, an organization sees players everyday and on the practice field... They are in game situations in practice outside of tackling... their evaluation is more than just game tape in the end they really like Williams and probably feel after this season, he price would go up so lock him in now... I would not say it is a rush signing but one that they wanted to do and feel it will benefit them in the long runb.