Rex Ryan: Buffalo Bills RB Karlos Williams 'clearly overweight'

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Running back Karlos Williams did not endear himself to coach Rex Ryan when he reported to the Buffalo Bills' mandatory mini-camp clearly out of shape.

Williams' fiancee recently gave birth to a son, and as Williams tells the story, he fell into the trap of overeating during that period when baby mom would have cravings at odd hours.

"I like to eat and then her being pregnant gave me an excuse to eat, so eating anything and everything," Williams said. "She'd wake up, one or two o'clock, 'I want a snack.' Well I'm not going to sit here and watch you eat because I don't want you to feel bad."

Williams made light of the situation, but he was held out of practice and was doing conditioning work on the side, something that irked Ryan, a man who knows a thing or two about being overweight.

"Obviously he's not anywhere close to where he needs to play at a high level," Ryan said. "So we've got to get some weight off him and he certainly understands that. You guys can see him as well as I do; he's clearly overweight.

"You wish that he was in much better shape, there's no question about it. I think in the future I'm sure he's got to realize that what he did this offseason is far from what you want. He's a young guy, hopefully he'll learn from it."

Last year, the fifth-round pick from Florida State rushed for 517 yards and scored seven touchdowns, and he tied an NFL rookie record by scoring in each of his first six games.

However, he was hampered by injuries and missed five full games and parts of two others. He was listed on the roster sheet at 230 pounds, but he was probably about 240 most of the season, and he's clearly well above that right now, though he wouldn't say what he weighs.

"Not far off, not far off," Williams said. "It's going to require some work, some discipline in the meal room and that's something I have to do. I'm a professional. The coaches and the strength and conditioning coaches are behind me, so it's not going to be a problem.

"I don't think it's going to be easy, I don't think that at all," Ryan said. "Obviously he's had some different things, I know some personal things and all that, but we do have to be slow with him.

"That's why I wasn't putting him out here full-speed. What you don't want to do, you don't want to have him, all of a sudden he's going to drop 20 pounds and he comes out here and he gets hurt the first day of training camp. That's what we're trying to avoid."

--The Bills No. 1 running back, LeSean McCoy, is in shape, but he's battling a nagging ankle injury that is keeping him out of the mini-camp.

"I've been telling you guys the wrong things about Shady," Ryan said. "It's actually an ankle, not a hamstring, so that tells you how much I knew. I should've said leg injury like the hockey version and we would've been fine."

McCoy was bothered by injuries last season, and there's no doubt that the Bills are going to take it easy on him in training camp, just as they have throughout the OTAs and now the mini-camp.

He has not participated in any of the team drills and has seen only limited reps in 7-on-7.

--Newly-signed left tackle Cordy Glenn has been sidelined the first two days of mini-camp, although no one is sure why.

"He's got something, I don't know," coach Rex Ryan said. "He's been in the training room. He's here early in the morning and everything else, training. If we were playing a game on Sunday. he'd be out there."

In Glenn's place, the Bills have been using Cyrus Kouandjio on the left side, leaving Jordan Mills -- the frontrunner to win the right tackle job -- in his typical spot.

Seantrel Henderson, who was the right tackle starter most of the previous two years, is not practicing but is at the facility doing conditioning drills as he works his way back from Crohn's disease.