Bills sign G Keith Williams

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http://twitter.com/#!/buffalobills/status/116229635930464256

#Bills signed G Keith Williams 2 practice squad. 6-5,310-pd Nebraska product entered NFL as 6thrd(196th overall) draft choice of PIT in 2011

[justasportsfan]

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Gailey likes em huge. Whats the 411 on him coming out of college? DB? Era?

[DraftBoy]

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6'4, 318 lbs.

Typical Nebraska OL, big, strong, and has a mean streak.

Not technically or athletically gifted but he knows how to move the man in front of him. Not a bad pickup imo. Many thought he would make the Steelers 53 man as the last OL reserve.

Was Pitt's 6th round pick last draft.

[X-Era]

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Here's some write up from a Pitt site:

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2011/04/steelers-draft-g-keith-williams-with-31st-196th-overall-pick-of-the-6th-round/

[better days]

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Looks like the kind of player Nix & Gailey like, BIG & NASTY.

[Mad Max]

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But seriously, I'm down with picking up Stiller hand me downs when it comes to OL (LB would be fine as well). Especially a fresh draftee.

[Goobylal]

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What happened with Antonio Coleman?

[The Jokeman]

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What happened with Antonio Coleman?

Who cares? Yeah he was a feel good story who made the team last year as an UDFA but nabbed 12 tackles in 8 games played. Not really anything to write home about. He's a JAG (Just A Guy) and honestly I think it's a good sign when guys like Coleman don't return.

[TigerJ]

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Buffalo can get away with interior linemen who are not great athlete's because they use more drive blocking rather than zone blocking. Zone blocking linemen have to be able to do a lot of lateral moving and on average tend to be a little lighter. He's probably not going to do a lot of pulling, but Andy Levitre and Eric Wood can provide that. He sounds a great deal like Urbik.

[ferg2butler]

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By now I trust Nix dumpster diving abilities

[Oaf]

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5 bucks says Keith Williams will start for us this year.

haha......

[X-Era]

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By now I trust Nix dumpster diving abilities

I don't. I want proven backups.

[TigerJ]

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Proven backups are not generally eligible for the practice squad.

[X-Era]

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Proven backups are not generally eligible for the practice squad.

Of course they aren't. Right now we have no one behind Rhinehart or Levitre. If either gets injured, we have to shuffle another starter into that spot. Probably Wood and then start Colin Brown at C. Sorry, but I don't feel the situation is "solid" and I still feel we should add a vet who can play if we have an injury. I mean one injury to Wood, Levitre, or Rhinehart and we are starting Brown at C to go against Wilfork next week...

[better days]

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Of course they aren't. Right now we have no one behind Rhinehart or Levitre. If either gets injured, we have to shuffle another starter into that spot. Probably Wood and then start Colin Brown at C. Sorry, but I don't feel the situation is "solid" and I still feel we should add a vet who can play if we have an injury. I mean one injury to Wood, Levitre, or Rhinehart and we are starting Brown at C to go against Wilfork next week...

Fergs post was not about OL depth, it was about Nix's ability to find players with potential from other teams castoffs.

Prior to the start of the season, many were saying how terrible Pears would be. Well, he won't make the Pro Bowl, but he is better than what was there before. That is dumpster diving.