Ricky Williams was hooked on “Don’t Worry, Be Happy, and don’t Bogart the Fritos, please” weed and is still alive and smiling. Manziel is in a genuinely lethal downward spiral of booze and drugs. Hopefully, he’ll still have a pulse when he hits bottom but there’s a good chance he won’t.
And Ricky Williams had like a 10 year career, where during several of those years he was the best back in the league. Manziel has done nothing.