By TIM YOTTER
VikingUpdate.com
After six years with the Vikings, including three Pro Bowl seasons, Pat Williams says he is moving on with his career. Not out of the NFL, just out of Minnesota.
"Everything's good. I am not coming back. Going to go finish elsewhere," the three-time Pro Bowler said in a text message to Viking Update.
Last week at the NFL Scouting Combine, Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said the Vikings were looking to get younger on the defensive line.
"We are going to try to upgrade our defensive line. It may be through the draft, it may be through free agency," Frazier said in Indianapolis. "That's a scenario where we want to do some things that can really help our defensive line. We're aging at one of the spots. We need to do some things to improve. One of the mantras has been being good against the run, stopping the run. We've kind of slipped a little bit so we have to take a look at some things and see what we have to do to improve in that area."
Frazier pointed out later that he didn't name Pat Williams specifically, but Williams is 38 years old and will be an unrestricted free agent when a new collective bargaining agreement is reached and a new league year begins.
Williams indicated his trust with some in the organization is eroding.
"Just don't trust everybody over there no more," he said in a text. "I feel if I got your back and you don't got my back, trust (is) gone. I play hard all the time, even (when) things (weren't) good all the time. I never quit on them, but I am always happy and blessed and I wish them the best."
Asked to clarify, Williams said he wasn't referring to Frazier.
"I trust Frazier. He can only do so much. It's that other part of the job," Williams texted. "I'd played for him any day."
Williams signed with the Vikings as a free agent in 2005 after spending the first eight years of his career with the Buffalo Bills. He was named to the Pro Bowl following the 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons and helped lead the Vikings to the No. 1 rush defense an NFL-record three consecutive years
