Aug 25th 2008 9:45AM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: Bears, NFC North, NFL InjuriesYesterday was a busy day at Halas Hall, but not on the field.

Chicago Bears first-round bust pick Chris Williams told reporters that he already had a tweaked back before the NFL draft. ”I had a herniated disc before I got here,” Williams said. ”We knew that. Everyone knew that. It just was a thing where most people it doesn’t affect. It wasn’t affecting me, so if nothing is broke, you don’t fix it. Then something happened in practice that second day, the disc started moving and that caused some problems.”So he withheld information to get drafted higher? The nerve of this guy! Oh wait, Bears GM Jerry Angelo said that he knew about it when he drafted Williams in the first round.”There is a lot of history of players that had this condition that he had at the combine that have played with it,” Angelo said. ”We were basing it off of the play time. We were basing it off of no symptoms for a period of three or more years. We were comfortable with that. I did use the term wear and tear. There were concerns. But you know what, you could say that for a lot of players at a lot of positions.”Continue Reading