Tramon Williams didn’t even need to see Darnell Savage practice to get a feel for what kind of defensive back the Packers’ secondary was getting in the rookie first-round pick out of Maryland.
The 13th-year veteran had already heard enough in the meeting room.
“Even before we stepped on the field, I recognized how smart the kid was,” said Williams after Tuesday’s first public practice of organized team activities.
“Most rookies, you don’t see that right away. You wonder, ‘OK, can he pick up this? Can he do this? Can he do that?’ But man, this kid pretty much knows what we’ve put in already and he’s asking for more. You don’t get that from rookies…(that’s) just not what rookies do.”
Williams has been around some good ones, too. He was in Green Bay during the infancy of three-time All-Pro safety Nick Collins’ time as a starter, and he played alongside Morgan Burnett, Micah Hyde and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix as rookies.
“You know what’s funny with Darnell, even before he even stepped on the field, I recognized how smart the kid was. And with most rookies you don’t see that right away. Like you wonder, ‘OK, can he pick up this? Can he do this? Can he do that?’ But man, this kid pretty much knows what we done put in already. He’s asking for more. You don’t get that from no rookies, asking for more things already. Just not what rookies do. They’re trying to really get whatever the coach is giving them and they’re trying to grasp that. But he’s asking for more. That’s the first thing that I recognized about the kid, that he’s a very, very smart kid and he’s in-tune with what’s going on out on the field already. We’re definitely going to need him. We’ll definitely need those smarts.”
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