"I think it helps a lot because you get to hear from some guys that you might not always hear from, and then you get to hear someone's why. There are times where obviously going through camp that's going to be hard. Everyone has tough days, hard days. If I see somebody having a hard or tough day, I understand that guy a little deeper now on a human level, and I can talk to him and let him know, hey, I know his why now, and I know how to push him a little better now."
Williams said his "why" gave him stability.
"I haven't been able to talk to the defense about my why yet, but for me I think just football gave me everything I have in life. I grew up homeless at times. I grew up living in and out of hotels, motels, and kind of unstable lifestyle as a young kid. When I found football in high school, it gave me stability, it gave me good male role models in my life, and it just gave me something to kind of distract myself from everything going on at home. For me after that, just learning from coaches, good male role models in my life, I just fell in love with it, fell in love with the camaraderie, the family aspect of my teammates and stuff like that. I'm sure every single person at this point, it never was about the money. The money ends up coming with it obviously, but for every single person that talks about their why, it's because they had some type of lifestyle like that growing up and then it brought them to this point."