PJ Williams

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PJ Williams
PJ Williams 2013.jpg
Williams 2013
New Orleans Saints - No. 26
Cornerback
Date of birth: June 1, 1993
Place of birth: Ocala , Florida
Height: 1.83 m Weight: 88 kg
NFL debut
2015 for the New Orleans Saints
Career
College : Florida State
NFL Draft : 2015 / Round: 3 / Pick: 78
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
college
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Tackles     151
Interceptions     4th
forced fumbles     2
Passes defended     24
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Kenneth Lamar "PJ" Williams (* 1. June 1993 in Ocala , Florida ) is an American American football poker players in the National Football League (NFL). He plays for the New Orleans Saints as cornerback .

college

Williams attended Florida State University and played college football with great success for their team, the Seminoles . With his team he won the ACC three times and even the national championship in 2014 . He was able to set a total of 120 tackles , score a sack and prevent 18 passes. He also got four interceptions .

NFL

Williams was selected by the New Orleans Saints as the 78th player in the third round of the 2015 NFL Draft . Due to his performance in college and at the NFL Combine , the experts assumed a much earlier election, but only a few weeks earlier he was temporarily jailed for driving under the influence of psychoactive substances after narrowly escaping an accident in October 2014 .

His professional career was initially marked by serious injuries. He sustained a serious muscle injury in preparation and had to spend the entire 2015 season on the Injured Reserve List . In 2016, the season was already over after two games for him after he suffered a severe concussion in the game against the New York Giants . In the following two years he was used regularly and in 2018 he even scored a touchdown in the game against the Minnesota Vikings . In 2019, he was stopped by the police for taking banned substances, a few days after the Saints' elimination in the NFC Championship Game, apparently intoxicated and after he had been briefly detained by the league for two games after he had refused a breath alcohol test .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ College statistics on sports-reference.com, accessed September 26, 2017
  2. ^ Report on nfl.com from April 3, 2015, accessed on September 26, 2017
  3. ↑ Times-Picayune report of September 1, 2015, accessed September 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Times-Picayune report of September 21, 2016, accessed September 26, 2017
  5. ↑ Times-Picayune report of October 15, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Williams, PJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Kenneth Lamar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Ocala , Florida , United States