Utah State University Athletics

INDIVIDUAL HONORS: Honorable Mention All-Mountain West (2018); New Mexico Bowl Defensive Most Valuable Player (2018); ESPN All-Bowl Team (2018).

2019 (SR): Started all 13 games and finished the season with 72 tackles (52-solo, 20-assist), which included 3.5 tackles for loss, while adding seven pass breakups, two interceptions and one fumble recovery... Was second on the team with his nine passes defended and two picks, and finished the year fifth on the team in tackles... Had a pair of double-digit tackle outings during the season with a career-high 14 stops at Air Force (10/26) and 12 stops at San Diego State (9/21)... Also recovered his first-career fumble at AFA... Tied his career high with a pair of interceptions at New Mexico (11/30) and tied his career high with three pass breakups against Stony Brook... Had a season-high 2.0 tackles for loss at Fresno State (11/9) and added 1.0 tackles for loss against Colorado State (9/28)... Also had 0.5 tackles for loss at No. 5 LSU (10/5)... Other pass breakups were against CSU, Nevada (10/19), BYU (11/2) and UNM.    

2018 (JR): Earned honorable mention all-Mountain West honors as he started all 13 games… Finished the season with 42 tackles (33-solo, 9-assist), which included 1.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss, while adding 11 pass breakups, four interceptions, one forced fumble and one quarterback hurry… Led the team with 15 passes defended, which included a team-best 11 pass breakups, while his four interceptions tied for the team lead… Tied for first in the MW and tied for 16th in the nation with four interceptions (0.31 pg), and tied for third in the MW and tied for 30th in the nation in passes defended with 15 (1.2 pg)… Recorded a season-high six tackles, including a season-best 1.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss, to go along with a quarterback hurry against New Mexico State (9/8)… Had six tackles, to go along with two pass breakups against Air Force (9/22)… Also had six tackles at Wyoming (10/20) and notched two pass breakups at BYU (10/5)… Had five tackles against San José State (11/10)… Recorded four tackles and a season-best three pass breakups at Colorado State (11/17) and added four tackles at No. 21 Boise State (11/24)… Had three tackles and forced his only fumble of the season against Tennessee Tech (9/13)… Was named the Defensive Most Valuable Player of the New Mexico Bowl (12/15) as he intercepted two passes, returning one 31 yards, against North Texas… Was also named to the ESPN All-Bowl team for his performance against North Texas… Recorded at least one tackle in 11 of the 13 games he played in and had multiple tackles in 10 of those games… Had at least one pass breakup in seven games.  

JUNIOR COLLEGE: Earned National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) first-team All-America honors at defensive back following his sophomore season at Independence (Kan.) Community College... Also earned first-team all-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) honors as a sophomore as he played in all 11 games for the Pirates and finished the season fourth on the team in total tackles with 56, averaging 5.1 per game… Also had 2.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss, to go along with three pass breakups, two fumble recoveries and one forced fumble... Had a season-high nine tackles in a 30-20 Midwest Classic Bowl win against Northwestern Oklahoma A&M, the program’s first-ever bowl victory… Independence CC finished the season with a 9-2 record and a No. 5 national ranking. 

PREVIOUS SCHOOL: Spent two seasons at the University of Chattanooga, where he redshirted in 2015 before playing in 13 games in 2016, tallying eight tackles. 

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned Tennessee Class 1A Region 6 all-state honors at cornerback as a prep senior at Smyrna (Tenn.) High School... Was also named team MVP his senior season and was the defensive MVP as a junior… Tallied 16 career interceptions… Also saw time on the offensive side of the ball and on special teams as he finished his senior season with 949 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns… Was a three-time all-district honoree... Also played basketball and ran track at Smyrna HS. 

PERSONAL: Son of Dorian Williams and Razani Jones... Brother, Deylon Williams, plays football at Independence (Kan.) CC... Graduated from Utah State University in the fall of 2019 with a degree in sociology.