Browns draft pick Greedy Williams offers the speed and skills to make him an immediate impact player in 2019. (Joe Robbins, Getty Images)

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns entered the 2019 NFL Draft clearly needing a cornerback opposite Denzel Ward. Somehow, without a first-round pick, they will leave the draft with perhaps its most talented player at the position.

With the selection of LSU's Greedy Williams at pick 46, the Browns have found a player with a history of success at the college level, and the right kind of traits to potentially become an excellent fit in the secondary under new defensive coordinator Steve Wilks.

Williams comes with the data to back up the excellent tape. According to Pro Football Focus, Williams comes with coverage grades of 89.8 and 82.7 over his final two seasons at LSU with 25 forced completions. He also put up some of his best work against his toughest competition. He also tested extremely well.

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Watch the pure speed freshman Greedy Williams shows here to track down this ball-carrier. You will see him close quickly in the final seconds.

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Let's check the tape to see the good and bad of what Williams will bring to the Browns' cornerback room in 2019.

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What Williams does well: Press Man Coverage

In the modern NFL, being able to lock down an opposing wide receiver in tight press coverage is an important trait. Williams brings that skill to the table.

He has some of the more natural hips in the class and will often mirror receivers with an effortless glide that usually allows him to be in the best position upon the arrival of the ball. He isn't flawless, but his feel for this skill is arguably the best in the class.

Every defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach loves this natural ability. Few possess it.

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Williams will get in his opposing receiver's face, but not necessarily to jam them with physicality. He just wants to mirror you and frustrate your route process. Watch Williams work with such patience here. He doesn't fall for the slow initial step off the line, then stays in perfect phase down the field and flips the hips with ease to break up this underthrow.

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More work against double moves here in press. Watch the ease by which he shifts the weight to keep balance after the inside sell from the receiver. A weaker corner would have stumbled and lost this rep, but he stays in balance and uses his elite speed to run in phase and break up the throw upon arrival.

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More press where he stays in perfect phase with ease. Dig routes are never easy to cover off the stem and break, but he is in the receiver's hip pocket the entire time and makes a play on the arms when the ball arrives. It forces the incompletion.

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This is cornerback perfection. Watch the ease at which he turns, squeezes his man into the sideline and finds the ball at the exact time to pick this throw off.

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Ball Skills

An important part of playing the cornerback position, and often what separates average from good, is the ability to find the ball and make a proper play on it without drawing flags. Williams has this trait.

Some corners can use their athletic traits to be in the perfect position to make a play on the football's arrival, but fail to knock down or intercept throws due to a lack of awareness or natural feel with this part of the job. The best at the position finish these plays more often than not.

The Browns' defense took major forward strides by creating turnovers and forcing contested throws. Williams will use his skill-set on ball arrival to contribute to this facet of the game once again for 2019.

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Williams practically runs this corner route for the opposing receiver and patiently waits at the top of his route. Then jumps in front to go down and get this low throw for an interception.

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Against Auburn here, Williams is aligned on the left side of your screen. He is in press working his man's outside stem vertical route. He feels the back-shoulder throw coming and never loses proper positioning. He makes this interception look easy. At times, it will look like Williams is running the route for the receiver.

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At the top of the screen here, Williams turns the hips outside and then feels the slant coming. He gets hands on to disrupt the route and then finishes with the ball skills to find the throw and make the interception cutting off his man.

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Zone Patience and Processing

Williams is not best fit for zone coverage, but there is no doubt he cam accomplish the tasks within. What he does best is bait quarterbacks into throws during which he can use his elite closing speed to make plays on the football.

Zone coverage takes processing, route awareness, and timing to execute properly. He has those traits despite not being his preferred play style.

Let's take a look at some examples.

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Williams is at the top of the screen as LSU is playing quarters coverage. He is in his initial backpedal and quickly comes out of it to jump the timing hitch and make the interception and return it for a touchdown. Coming out of the break quickly here is paramount.

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Again in what appears to be quarters coverage (cover-4) watch how quickly Williams reads this out route out of his depth and backpedal. He baits the throw and then quickly closes for the opportunity to make an excellent interception.

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Where Williams needs work: Poor tackling

When it comes to scouting Williams, it is universal across most evaluators that Williams is a poor tackler. Some of this comes down to effort, and some of it is technique.

Across his last two years at LSU, Williams missed a total of 10 tackles. Not a high number considering the snap numbers, but when you watch Williams you can see some of the concerns Williams has with getting ballcarriers to the ground.

Let's check the tape.

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Like most corners, Williams tries to shoot through the legs and make tackles without wrapping or exposing too much of his body. When he fails to shoot through the legs and attempts higher contact, he runs into trouble. Much like Ward, he has to be smart about how he goes about tackling.

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Sometimes tackling comes down to effort. Occasionally Williams put reps on tape that lacked that effort. Here, he allows his man to win inside and catch the slant but his desire and passion to run down the receiver is lacking. Some attribute this to playing it cautious with his health his last year at LSU, but it is something to watch at the NFL level.

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Occasional footwork issues

Proper footwork is vital for playing cornerback successfully. For the most part, Williams does the job well. Occasionally he will be found cutting off the wrong foot, or failing to throttle his speed in inopportune times.

Overall, his footwork is crisp, but when analyzing a player with a skill-set like Williams, you do have to understand the why and how he gets beat. Let's take a look.

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Against Georgia's Riley Ridley, who will be drafted Saturday, Williams shows us the deep ball issue he can run into occasionally. He is in the proper phase but he doesn't quite feel the throw's arrival and runs past the catch-point. It's rare, but this is when he gets beat on deeper throws.

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Against Alabama this past year, Williams shows us that wrong-foot cut issue. He is chasing from the outside here and attempts to shift his weight off the inside foot at the catch-point and it causes him to slip and allow the catch and touchdown. Occasionally Williams will show some unorthodox cutting that leads to some issues. Again, not often, but it does pop up on his tape.

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Final Thoughts

The Browns truly feel like they got a first-round player with Williams at 46. It's hard to argue. He seemed like the ideal pick for Seattle at 21, their type of corner.

Then the Seahawks passed, and so did the whole first round.

As Round 2 began, it seemed likely he was gone early once again. Yet there he was available in the 40s. As the Browns' pick approached they didn't want Seattle taking him just before their selection so they did all they could to ensure they snagged Williams by moving up to 46. A necessary sacrifice for this type of player.

Williams may have scared some teams off with the lack of tackling ability, or perhaps some pre-draft interviews, but the Browns felt the skill-set at the position's most important aspects was too hard to pass up.

Steve Wilks loves playing zone coverage behind his aggressive blitz schemes, but with these two man-to-man corners in Ward and Williams, mixed with an elite front four, Wilks may be inclined to shift to more man coverage to allow his defensive backs to make the front's job easier getting home to opposing quarterbacks.

The best coaches in this league shift their scheme to their personnel. They make the most of what they have, and play to their players' strengths. Wilks would be best served doing so here as the Browns might now have the best young duo in the NFL when it comes to man coverage.

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Jake Burns played quarterback at the collegiate level and also has coached at both the high school and college levels. You can read more X&O analysis from Burns at the OBR.

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