AP

Bill Belichick’s success in New England has featured moving players to the other side of the ball than the one they normally play. In Rex Ryan’s first training camp with the Bills, he already has shifted two high-profile players to the opposite line of scrimmage.

Previously, receiver Percy Harvin took snaps at cornerback. On Thursday, defensive tackle Kyle Williams spent some time at tight end.

But it wasn’t to make Williams into a J.J. Watt-style touchdown-reception machine. As explained by coach Rex Ryan after practice, it wasn’t about catching but blocking.

“The tight ends there, you know sometimes you can be a little babies,” Ryan said, via comments distributed by the team. “They’re all upset because . . . you’re putting Kyle in there. Well, ’cause he can block somebody! So that’s probably the real reason. I said look outside of [Matt] Mulligan, I don’t see anybody blocking anybody. So they were going today, [I] had another word with them or two.”

So, basically, don’t expect to see Kyle Williams playing much tight end. And if he does, it’ll happen only because none of the other tight ends are doing what amounts to a fairly important part of the job.