Williams was diagnosed with prostate cancer<\/a> and would be stepping away.<\/p>\n\u201cI unfortunately have to tell you that Terrell Williams was determined to have prostate cancer, and is in the process of treatment and meeting with specialists and figuring out the best plan of attack to be able to attack this and heal it and fix it and allow him to get back to better healthy,\u201d Vrabel said at the time. \u201cYou know how much Terrell means to me personally and to the people on this football team. So, again, we want to send our regards and publicly let everybody know that\u2019s what he\u2019s dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inside linebackers coach Zak Kuhr took over calling plays for New England in his absence. Vrabel announced Thursday that since leaving about five months ago, Williams is \u201cdoing well\u201d and will be making the trip to Santa Clara for Super Bowl LX as the Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n
Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs called Williams a \u201croad warrior\u201d and said his attendance means a lot to the team.<\/p>\n
Though he spent just one season coaching the Lions, he made a big impact on many players. Head coach Dan Campbell called him a \u201chighly intelligent\u201d coach, who understands his players\u2019 personalities.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, to watch him\u2014he treated every player different, man. Some guys he prodded, some guys he loved up, some guys he would just simply walk and whisper in their ear and then watch \u2018em go, like, he\u2019s got a knack about understanding how to make people go, and not everybody\u2019s the same, so, unbelievable dude, unbelievable human being, great teacher,\u201d Campbell said of Williams back during last year\u2019s owners meetings.<\/p>\n
And onto the rest of your notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Detroit Lions coach Terrell Williams will join the New England Patriots at the Super Bowl after stepping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,4391,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-715755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-news","9":"tag-detroit-lions-notes","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115982401859775507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}