The second you lose sight of Tim Williams, you’re finished. If the Alabama linebacker gets his wish in the College Football Playoff national championship game, Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson will be seeing Williams every time he closes his eyes at night.

Williams represents a nightmare scenario for any quarterback and offensive line out to protect said signal-caller. Just ask Michigan State right tackle Kodi Kieler during the Crimson Tide’s 38-0 shutout of the Spartans in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

Here is it from another angle, in case you wanted to see him finish the pressure on Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook.

Williams only has 19.0 tackles on the season, but 12.5 of them occurred behind the line of scrimmage, including 10.5 sacks. The Baton Rouge product played sparingly in his first two seasons in Tuscaloosa, registering just 1.5 sacks over just nine games during his freshman and sophomore years. But he all but made up for it this season and has announced he’ll return to Alabama for his senior campaign — a frightening proposition for future Tide opponents.

Clemson is adept at protecting its Heisman finalist quarterback. The Tigers tied North Carolina for the fewest amount of sacks allowed (1.14) this season. The onus of protecting Watson falls first on Clemson right tackle Joe Gore, a 6-foot-6, 300-pound mountain — who is the same height, but 15 pounds lighter than Sparty’s Kieler. But Watson, Gore and the Tigers haven’t faced a dominating unit such as Alabama’s front-seven, which leads the nation in sacks with 50 on the year or 3.57 per game.