Would you believe it if someone told you that, after failing his October 29th physical because of discomfort when putting on a football helmet, Trent Williams was actually looking for a suitable option so that he could play football again?
According to an interview with The Athletic, Williams said that he was in the process of working with Riddell in order to find a helmet that worked for his head, and wouldn’t irritate the scar that remains after having a growth removed from his scalp earlier in the year.
While he was waiting to receive a new helmet from Riddell, the Washington Redskins placed him on the Non-Football Injury list, assuring that his season was over, and he would not be paid by the team.
The left tackle did acknowledge that day that his injury was a non-football injury, though he did say in the Thursday interview that the team’s move to place him on NFI caught him off guard. He was actually looking forward to having a new helmet from Riddell that Monday that would hopefully address the discomfort he felt when he tried on two different helmets to no avail on Oct. 29 and subsequently failed his physical two hours after initially passing it.
Of course, just because he was looking for a suitable helmet doesn’t mean that he had any intention of using said helmet with the Redskins, but the optics are still terrible.
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