SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- San Francisco 49ers left tackle Trent Williams isn't ready to call it a career just yet. But for the first time, he can see the end from here.
Williams, speaking to Bay Area media for the first time since signing a two-year, $50 million contract extension, was reflective Wednesday about where he is in his career and the family time missed since he entered the league in 2010, and was open about the likelihood that he will retire after two more seasons.
Asked whether he thought his latest extension was the final deal he'd sign, Williams confirmed that he did. Asked whether he envisioned his career being done at the end of those two years, he said, "Yeah, probably."
Williams then expounded on what the feeling was like when he put pen to paper on perhaps his final NFL contract.
"It's scary," Williams said. "I'm toying between the idea of going until I can't no more and just leaving while I've still got some good product left and not getting ran out the league.
"It's been a long time, and I have a daughter who was born a few months before I got drafted. I'm going on year 17. She's turning 17. As a father, you feel like, 'Dang, I kind of missed her whole life until adulthood.'... She [will] go off to college in a couple years. I want to be there and be accessible, and I don't want to be that father that shadows the kid. I want to be close. You know what I mean? I want to be close. I don't want to be somewhere at a joint practice."