RB Ricky Williams made big news today signing a two-year deal with the Ravens to bolster Baltimore's running back corps and to help take some of the load off Ray Rice.

But as the eagle eyes at Pro Football Talk point out, Williams' interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel about why he chose the Ravens might be grounds to charge the Lions with tampering. Yet again.

As Williams explains it, Scott Linehan -- former Dolphins offensive coordinator who worked with Williams when Nick Saban coached in Miami -- was (and still is) with Detroit as the offensive coordinator, and after a Lions-Dolphins game last year, he approached Williams and apparently said something along the lines of, "If you need a home, we'd love to have you on our team."

That, of course, is a violation of the agreed-upon rules, since Williams was under contract with the Dolphins at the time. Williams' final two choices for 2011 were the Ravens and the Lions, so Detroit ultimately didn't cash in on the apparent recruiting job. But it'll be interesting to see if the NFL investigates the matter and decides to punish the Lions.

As you might remember, the Lions aren't that far removed from the NFL punishing them for tampering (last February to be exact). In that case, Gunther Cunningham, Detroit's defensive coordinator, made comments to the media about wanting to pick up defensive players from his former employer, the Chiefs. As punishment, Detroit had to exchange its 2011 fifth-round pick for Kansas City's fifth-round pick (a 14-pick swing) and the Lions lost their sixth-round selection in the 2012 NFL draft.