Buffalo Bills operating spine Karlos Williams came to his team’s mandatory mini-camp was held from drills by coach Rex Ryan for being overweight.
His excuse was unique.
“Just attempting to ensure pregnancy went well for my fiancee, yet because that’s over she knows what’ time it is,” Williams told reporters according to ESPN.com. “It’s football time _ obtaining spine in football form and obtaining prepared for training camp.”
Someone remarked to Williams that is the very first time pregnancy owned been made use of as a concern for an obese football player. Williams conceded that may be true, yet he wasn’t backing down.
Buffalo Bills operating spine Karlos Williams, 2nd from right, takes section in drills throughout the team’s NFL football minicamp in Orchard Park, N.Y., Wednesday, June 15, 2016. (Bill Wippert/Associated Press)
“It is surely a first, and her being pregnant gave me an excuse to eat, so (I was) consuming everything and everything,” Williams said. “She’d wake up, a couple of o’clock, `I wish a snack.’ Well, I’m not seeing sit listed here and view you consume since I do not wish you to feel bad.”
Williams said he and her fiancee have actually been exercising with each other to gone the child weight.
It remains to be seen if that Will certainly be sufficient to comply with Ryan, that said Williams is “obviously not close to where he has to be to play at a higher level.”
Williams, listed at 6-foot-1, 230 pounds, owned an excellent year for the Bills last season, acquiring 517 yards about 93 carries along with seven touchdowns, an standard of 5.6 yards each attempt.
