Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar will write about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we focus on Green Bay Packers safety Evan Williams, who began his NFL career as part of the franchise’s massive safety overhaul, and has become an ascending player in all sorts of concepts.

In the 2024 preseason, the Green Bay Packers did everything they possibly could to erase the odor of a defense run by Joe Barry that had ranked 27th in DVOA on that side of the ball the season before. New defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley came on board from Boston College, and boy, did general manager Brian Gutekunst and his staff attack the safety positions. Former New York Giant Xavier McKinney wa

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