Jamaal Williams

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Jamaal Williams
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Williams (2019)
Green Bay Packers - No. 30
Running back
Date of birth: April 3, 1995
Place of birth: Rialto , California
Height: 1.83 m Weight: 96 kg
NFL debut
2017 for the Green Bay Packers
Career
College : BYU
NFL Draft : 2017 / Round: 4 / Pick: 134
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
  • Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week (Week 14, 2017 )
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Runs     381
Space gain     1,480 yards
Captured passports     91
Space gain     725 yards
Touchdowns total     15th
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Jamaal Williams (* 3. April 1995 in Rialto , California ) is an American American football poker players in the position of running backs . He plays for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected as the 134th player in the 4th round in the 2017 NFL Draft .

Early years

Williams attended high school in Fontana , California . He decided to attend Brigham Young University after graduating from high school, having previously also toured Boise State University and San Diego State University .

college

At college , Williams played for the Brigham Young Cougars in the NCAA Independents Conference from 2012 to 2016, with an interruption in 2015 .

statistics

year team Runs Rush Yds Rush TD Pass catches Rec Yds TD
2012 BYU 166 775 12 27 315 1
2013 BYU 217 1,233 7th 18th 125 0
2014 BYU 109 518 4th 8th 47 0
2016 BYU 234 1,375 12 7th 80 0
total 726 3,901 35 60 567 1

Source: sports-reference.com

NFL

Williams was selected by the Green Bay Packers as the 134th player overall in the 4th round in the 2017 NFL Draft .

2017

In his 2017 rookie season , Williams was initially only rarely used, among other things because the competition in the Packers' squad for the running back position was very high this season . On matchday 10, when all the players who were in front of him in the squad were injured, he was able to convince as a starting player and play the rest of the regular season as such, even when the other running backs were ready for action again.

On Matchday 14, he was elected Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week with 49 yards run , 69 yards caught and 2 touchdowns in total .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Brandon Gurney: Calif. running back Jamaal Williams commits to BYU. Deseret News , July 6, 2011, accessed January 2, 2018 : “Jamaal Williams playing Summit High School football. He has committed to playing for BYU at running back and plans to joins the Cougars in 2012. "
  2. a b college statistics on sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. Michael Cohen: Packers see toughness in BYU's Jamaal Williams. packersnews.com, April 29, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018 : “His cell phone lit up with a Green Bay area code, and the Packers drafted Williams with the 134th overall selection, their second pick of the fourth round . "
  4. Brandon Judd: Jamaal Williams earns NFL Rookie of the Week honors. Deseret News , December 15, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018 : "Former BYU running back Jamaal Williams took home NFL Rookie of the Week honors on Friday after having another big week for the Green By Packers."