Mike Williams Is Relieved Not To Be An Offseason Story

Today, in Cheap Irony For Dummies, an offseason story about how glad Mike Williams is not to be an offseason story. For a stretch during last year's offseason, Williams was the only thing going. He showed up at Redskins Park weighing northward of 400 pounds, and the next thing you knew there were blog posts about bison meat and graphs with his head on them. Then the season started and Williams moved from position to position, sometimes looking like a guy who had been out of the league, other times looking like he was starting to settle in. The whole time, though, the story was that he was a guy who had lost a bunch of weight. This offseason, though, is much quieter for Williams. He's got his deal signed already. There are no writers analyzing his choice of food. No long diet plans or calls for a personal chef. No graphs with his head on them. And he's okay with that. "That's pretty much last year's story," Williams told me. He declined to re...