Trent Williams longed to feel normal again, to be back in the fold, alongside his football brothers in burgundy. After five months of rehabilitation and recovery from offseason knee surgery, the Washington Redskins left tackle recently emerged from his self-imposed “cave” and is finally back where he belongs.
And according to Williams, he is “very close” to being himself again.
“I got the go-ahead to kind of do whatever I can without obviously being too aggressive on it,” he said in his first interview since the end of the 2017 season. “I’m extremely blessed. I’ll be ready before camp.”
Lingering knee pain — so severe that doctors were surprised the 6-foot-5, 320-pound offensive lineman was able to play through it — had necessitated Williams’s sporadic absence on the field last season. Then the offseason brought a medical procedure that was far more involved than he had anticipated.
