The 6-foot-2, 194-pound Williams admitted he’s getting closer to deciding on a college, adding that a decision could come as early as “May or June,” and Tennessee remains one of the top schools he’s considering after his latest trip to Knoxville. “I was just really trying to show my mama the campus because she’d never been, and it’s a school I’m really considering,” said Williams. “I really (saw) the whole Knoxville. I went around and they showed me a lot of things, and I went and ate a lot — all kinds of places. It was just a lot. They really showed a lot of love, and I was really the only recruit there. “They were showing a lot of love.”
Williams, who has received scholarship offers from nearly 50 schools, said “it was a must” for his mother to visit Tennessee, and “she really loved it. She didn’t know Tennessee was like that,” he said. “I don’t know. It really just changed her mind. “She don’t care about (a school being) too far from home. She just didn’t know, like, about Tennessee that much. But now she loves it, for real. She really loves it now. (It was) everything — the environment, the academics, the coaches and all that. “I think she wants me to go to Tennessee, with how she’s talking.”
“Coach
David Johnson, he came back just for me,” Williams said. “He said he was in Kentucky, and he came back just for me, and then he left Wednesday night.” Williams said he also met with second-year Tennessee head coach
Jeremy Pruitt and talked with him “a lot,” and at least a couple of the Vols’ assistant coaches —
Derrick Ansley, their defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach, and wide receivers coach
Tee Martin — “kept FaceTime-ing me” while he was there. “They really want me to be a Vol,” Williams said. "Coach Ansley, he really texts me all the time and says, ‘I need you in my secondary.’ They said I would play as a freshman and all that.”
He said “Tennessee is recruiting me the hardest,” and he hears from the Vols “every day.” That’s one of the reasons they’re among his favorites. “Tennessee shows me the most love. I like their defense. I like their defensive coordinator and DB coach,” Williams said, referring to Ansley. “I like Coach Johnson. I like the whole coaching staff. “I know I could play when I get down there, for sure, and just everything. And I know Coach Pruitt and Coach Ansley, they really can put players in the league.”
