Evan Williams did not enter the league with much hype, and many draft boards labelled him a depth safety. That tag stuck because injuries and limited roles kept his impact hidden. But his early NFL run with Green Bay shows he affects games even when he is not on the field every snap. His story is less about flash and more about steady, gritty production.
Injuries Clouded the View, But Evan Williams Still Produced When Available
Clubhouse Live with Green Bay Packers safety Evan Williams in the Fox Club at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin on Monday, November 3, 2025.
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Williams’ 2025 season gives the clearest proof. He finished the regular season with 100 total tackles, 48 solo, three interceptions, five pass breakups and one fumble recovery in 16 games, solid numbers for a young safety still carving out his role.
Advanced grading also placed him among productive safeties, including three interceptions and strong tackle volume compared with peers at the position. These are not empty stats. They show he stayed around the ball and made stops.
The bigger reason scouts missed his ceiling is simple. Things never quite clicked when it mattered most. Mid-December, right after the defeat by Denver, Williams walked off limping - knee trouble flaring mid-game, soon confirmed as a strained MCL. Doubts crept in fast about whether he’d play again soon, pulling him out of drills days afterwards. Sources then suggested that he would miss two games. For rookies learning how to hold their ground in coverage, breaks like that scatter rhythm before it forms.
Still, the Packers’ response showed his real value. When he went down, Green Bay had to consider moving Javon Bullard or using depth options like Zayne Anderson to patch the secondary, which underlined how much Williams handled both coverage and run fits in their structure. Coaches kept listing him as a key contributor despite the injury list growing around the roster. That tells you his role was not cosmetic.
So the title fits. Scouts saw an undersized, box-heavy safety with average traits. What they missed was durability through pain and steady production in limited stretches. Even while dealing with knee trouble late in 2025, Williams still posted impact numbers and forced the defense to adjust when he sat. That gap between pre-draft labels and real NFL usage is exactly where his true potential slipped past the early evaluations.
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