‘”I’ve had a bone spur in my heel, under my Achilles [tendon] since college,” Williams said. “It’s been there for years. Over time, it’s just gotten bigger and bigger and worse and worse. The last couple years it’s just been pretty steady in the sense of hurting. This year it just came to a head. It was eating away at my Achilles. From the way the doctor described it, it was kind of like a violin bow going across a string. It was fraying it a little bit. I had a small tear in my Achilles. He said from the way it was fraying and as jagged as the spur was, it looked like a little pick axe. He didn’t know if it was going to be one play or 10 plays but it was on the verge of rupture. If you do that from the time it ruptures you’re out a calendar year.”‘