from the NY Times sports blog:
Ryan Williams, Virginia Tech (5-9, 212)
Williams is a precocious talent with explosiveness and balance in tight spaces similar to Mark Ingram’s. Only a sophomore, Williams lacks Ingram’s consistent maturity with his decisions behind the line of scrimmage, but Williams is still wiser at this stage of his development than Jamaal Charles and LeSean McCoy were when they entered the N.F.L.
He’s not known as a receiver and he’s still working on his development as a blocker, but I’ve seen enough to believe he’ll develop into an every-down back. Williams can adjust to the football and secure it while taking the type of shot from a safety or linebacker that’s common over the middle in the N.F.L. Williams admits he needs to learn more protection schemes, but he is already a physical blocker.
Like Ingram, Williams has great balance and quick feet. He’s as good as any back in this class at making something out of nothing. He’s also a very physical runner when it’s time to finish the play. I do have concerns that his hard-cutting, intense style will be harder on his body and that he could suffer a fate similar to Cadillac Williams’s. But no one can predict injury. He has the upside to develop into a star.