Brandon Williams DE - Cowboys Madden Career Madden NFL 2011 - Peak 52 OVR

This Brandon Williams is the Texas Tech product, not the Ravens nose tackle, a fourth-round pick of Dallas in 2009 drafted as a defensive end being converted to outside linebacker. The conversion never really got started, because a torn ACL in the 2009 preseason took his rookie year and much of the momentum a young position-switcher needs.

The Madden card is about as thin as they come. It peaked at just a 57 in Madden NFL 12, one of the lower peaks on any Cowboys card, a fair read on a player whose entire NFL career amounted to six games and a handful of tackles. The number never had anything to work with, because the knee and the position switch left almost no production to rate.

He bounced to Arizona, where a shoulder injury ended his 2012, then moved into coaching high school and indoor football. Williams is one of the many players whose careers are quietly erased by an early injury, a convert who never got the healthy runway to learn his new position. The thin, low-50s card is the honest, unadorned read on a career the ACL took before it could begin.