Connor Williams Abruptly Retires, Leaves Seattle Seahawks at Midseason

Capping off a stunning week at the VMAC, the Seahawks will now have to move forward with a new starting center after coach Mike Macdonald announced Connor Williams has decided to hang up his cleats. Hosts Corbin Smith and Nick Lee share their thoughts on Williams’ decision and how Seattle proceeds without him starting on Sunday in Santa Clara, dish out their weekly game plan for victory on offense and defense, and dive into their Picks to Click and game predictions for Week 11.

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17 comments

  6. Ouch. This season is circling the drain. The loss to the Rams was a putrid effort. We should have won, but we put it on a silver platter and said here, take it; we don’t want this. Sunday is our final chance. Win, or tear it down, and start thinking of the future. How do we win with the OL the way it is? I don’t know.

  11. MacDonald didn't say it was "family related." A reporter suggested that it was "family reasons" and MacDonald responded by characterizing it as "personal reasons" which describes every type of retirement other than one forced by injury or one forced because nobody will sign you to play for them any longer. Nothing about how MacDonald describes this sounds like some major family event; sounds like he went home for the bye and couldn't find the motivation to come back.

  12. Just found out now….a very interesting week. As of now, I am okay with this year. Let’s focus on next year, draft, trades, new coaching,etc. This will take time…not all families can handle a NFL lifestyle. Fabulous money but family suffers.
    In my opinion, this is the last ditch effort for a playoff chance. This is it.

  14. Probably quit because he was tired of hearing everybody say how bad he was and he was causing us to lose because of snapping wasn't great I think athletes say they don't listen to that but I'm pretty sure they do

  15. They have a center.They had him when this season started and They bench him For the worst center in football You guys told everyone how great this guy was.What a shame you didn't do your homework You never mention how bad he was playing. But you talked about Bradford. You talked about Tomlinson but.
    You never mentioned Connor William's name and he was the worst man on the field You Need😢 to be shame of yourself.

  16. I’m glad Mike is getting to see this much adversity his first year as a HC. Zoom out for a second and look at this from Coach Mikes view, this is a lot of $hit for a brand new HC to digest.

    I think this only helps Mike in the long run because we knew this season wasn’t going to be a deep run

  17. $6M… how much did he leave on the table? Drafted to the Cowgirls and went through some tuff stuff, especially that knee that was injured in college IIRC. Plus it can't be fun to enter a fan base FINALLY coming to terms with years of bad O-line.

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