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Because Devin McCourty got an opportunity to start from week 1 and JoeJuan Williams is behind the best CB duo in the league. So I guess my point is, the Patriots clearly had a plan for McCourty to be their top CB whereas with Williams you can't tell if maybe he just lost out to better CBs on the roster (which is not really a knock on him) or if he was drafted with the intent of playing him at safety
Williams didn't start because he wasn't good enough to start. That doesn't mean the team didn't have a plan for him. He was the guy who was going to defend the tall WRs coming into the league. If the team had drafted him to play safety, he'd have been playing safety.