Jameson Williams was a welcome new addition to the Detroit Lions offense in Monday’s practice walkthrough. The rookie wideout made his on-field debut a little more than 10 months after having surgery to repair a torn ACL suffered in Williams’ final game at Alabama.
It’s been hard to wait for Williams to get on the field with all the injuries to the Lions receiving corps. And while Williams isn’t back just yet–he’s still on the non-football injury list–the excitement of what the first-rounder can do is palpable.
“I know this, he can run. He can run,” Campbell enthused about Williams. “So, and that’s not hard to do. You either got it or you don’t, and he’s got it. So, that – in that regard he can help.”
Quarterback Jared Goff is ready to see what Williams can do to impact defenses.
“He’s just got so much speed, man,” Goff said after the first practice with Williams. “He’s got so much ability. Any way that we can use him, whenever that time is he comes back, it’ll give us a boost, someway, somehow, however many snaps that ends up being, however many balls he ends up catching. Just having him on the field and having his ability to threaten people vertically and to turn a 5-yard throw into a 60-yard gain, that type of stuff, it’s dangerous.”
