One of the many great prospects to come from Nick Saban's
program in Alabama. He is receiver. Jameson Williams
Jameson. Welcome to the program. How are you buddy?
I'm doing good. How are you? Everything is going good with
me
where I am doing great, since I didn't have to go to
Indianapolis this year and sit next to that guy watch out
because you got really big hands clamping down on top and
he may injure your when he does it.
How's the process been for you so far? Because it's a hectic.
Few. Days, you're up early and you're meeting with a lot of
people. How's that been for you thus far?
Our process is being some,
it's been a great process.
Some I've been looking forward to do since I was a kid. It's
just been fun. I'm just excited to be here.
Excited to get these. Do these type of things.
Like I said, it's been some. I just been dreaming of its
lifetime dream just coming through and it's just the first
step. Really?
What's been the the strangest thing that's happened. So far,
strange question strange experience something. Maybe you
didn't expect at the scouting combine.
I wouldn't I wouldn't say
I had anything strange happened to me.
Most of this. I was unprepared for me and my agent talked me
and my family talk. So most of this, I was referred for
prepare for
you have the unfortunate injury,
you know at the end dealing with that. Well, just you know,
take us it was here and this damn City and now you got all
these doctors here in this damn City, probably pulling and
grabbing that damn leg. You were kind of on fire and kick
it but
it'll take us through the the blow. Of to to yourself there
through that.
It was tough. It was tough. Yeah, it was tough. But it's
just some I just look at it like
it is what it is really?
It's something I can't change or something that just happened.
I just look like I said, I look at it is what it is, what it is.
It's something I wouldn't change. I feel like it's gonna
make me into a whole different monster something that nobody
ever seen something that somebody can't control. Yeah.
So yeah, you go. I like it. Just keep rattle them off.
Yeah, I like it. Okay.
All right, so then.
All right. So here's the Other thing I'm really interested in.
You, you went to Ohio State originally. Yeah, right. And
they had all these great receivers.
So, you pick the school with all the other, great freaking
receivers out, until they tried to go down there and do that.
Yeah, tell us how that transition kind of went about
transition. It went. Well,
as you can see
went over, we had a great offense, coach saving told me
on the phone. I would be a great
addition to the offense. Great, contribute to the offense,
as you've seen, we had 2,000, our receivers. We had 1,000 yards.
Back 4,000 or opacity.
We all just played off each other and show how good we were
unselfish. We weren't we all
open it is the OpenOffice.
Cultural. Be drew some things up. Coach wig juicing things
up. It was just weird play. Great football this year. Why
didn't it work it at Ohio State though before? Sorry, Mike.
Just want to get that out.
I don't know. That's not a question. You can ask. Yeah.
All right. Yeah. Yeah, it didn't work. Yeah. It didn't
work. It's working now. Yeah,
Jameson. After you suffered the knee in. Jury, Santonio Holmes,
who was a Super Bowl MVP from Ohio State, blamed the turf for
the injury. Do you think the playing surface playing on
artificial
surface had had anything to do with the injury that you
suffered?
I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the what the possible cause
was.
It could have been anything at this
at the moment. I could have planted wrong. I could have
some could have went wrong. My leg could have went I just
don't know.
I talked I looked at a couple times. I just couldn't figure
out what it was that happened, but
man.
They and handed. And just so we're just so we're just. So
we're clear on that because it was a torn ACL, but the news
was very, very good
right out of the gates as good as it can be for a torn ACL
that it was a you know, incredibly successful surgery
a clean tear and it seems to be that you're ahead of schedule
on everything.
Yeah actually rehabs been going. Well
my God, Tyler
Ashley, or they've been pushing me. We've been doing some great
things. I've been in the water again, some running Motion in
doing a lot of movement. Is doing a lot of
lives, doing it a lot on it.
It's just been going. Well.
Like I said, I'm ahead of schedule. That's what I've
heard. I've been, I've been off the crutches for about 23
weeks. Now. I've been out the brace
for about two weeks. Now,
I've been walking stable
without both. So everything is going good. I would say,
I mean, it sounds like it's going good. I want to know more
about Bama and all the damn wide receivers. You've been
around the last year. Yeah. It's like that environments.
Like, how you guys push each other. Do you talk crap? Do we
chose?
Other. Yeah, I most definitely one of those guys are going to
talk to you. Yeah, that's good. That's kind of how I played but
then when I would say, the whole team push each other, not
just the receivers. It was just the environment.
Everybody want to be the best. So we are pushing each other to
be the best. We're gonna push the best out of each other and
we gonna do it in practice. So,
when we get to the game, it's gonna be way easier than what
it was. Yeah, that's just really the culture, like, write
something that never change. I guess some guys,
back, when coach Saban got there. He burned the standard
and he just something that just carried on. Yeah. Yeah. Now you
guys are always professional. Always ready to go. Alright, so
now I see see baller Supremes everywhere there, right? Yeah.
I mean you were at Ohio State other ball or Supremes
everywhere, but I want to know real answer
here. Don't give me any b....... politic talk here.
Right? Jamison,
who is the best player you played against in college
football? Who was the guy on the field? You were just like
damn that guy right there.
He was just unbelievable.
Doesn't have to be a DB could be anything. It can be
anything, I'd be dead. Eli Manning or lot of freshman
year. I see when I see nausea Simmons in the
plate Fiesta Bowl. Yes long as this and he went crazy. It was
one plate.
Yeah, it was covered to but he had the it was covered to but
he dropped in the middle of the field like a Tampa to he's down
to little to down the middle, right? He came all the way to
the sideline. Pick the ball. It was crazy. I remember the play.
Yeah, running so fast. Yeah. Somebody for that size and
running that fast on the sidelines. You're crazy, right?
Okay. Good, that you're Manning up there. Give me an answer.
I appreciate that.
A James. And one of the reasons we love talking to guys, from
Alabama. We like good, Nick, Saban stories. What's your best
story about any interaction? Anything you witnessed or
experienced with Coach Saban?
Preferably one where he cuss you out a lot.
I really didn't get cussed out of La. Look at you
Appleton. It's a really over. They know.
It was a good story.
One practice. I went up to him and I asked him,
I ended up I was thinking about it. One day. I'll just ask them.
Did you know, I would turn into this type of player. When he
recruited me because Ohio, State and Alabama was
recruiting. Me and Coach same, recruiting me hard, and
he really just told me like, yeah, he knew he kind of knew
but he just, he just let he just allowed. Players to do
what they're good at.
You just allowed me to play ball really. So
I respect him for that and it's always love for Coach Saban.
Yeah.
How hard was it to say no to him the first time around? When
you picked, Ohio State coming out of high school.
It was real hard. I came down to the last second.
I feel like everything worked out. Well, I still ended up at
the place that
I say I was supposed to be at, but
everything just worked out. Well, man,
you don't get, you don't get too many second shots shots at
anything, especially with this,
and he's just went, well.
Yeah,
you got to be around some, some good quarterbacks here. Yeah,
like give me a Min.
Give me the goods a little like
first thing that jumps out to you with Tua.
Like, just the first thing you think about, when you think
about him and his game, what would it would be a great
quarterback. Great release. It's coming out quick. Really
and I love the left hand on, like, the lat.
So you like me. I'm alive. Yeah.
Yeah.
All right. How about Let me, give me give me some mac Jones.
What was the thing that jumped out to you about him, you know.
I didn't play with these quarterbacks. I was when you
were there. You're just out of the year. Yeah, that's like a
cheap price. I had just come into that Ohio State. Yeah,
I forgot. It was just watch those guys though. So Maggie, he's
a great quarterback. I feel like he's a field General if
anything.
So we're going to take over the game by yourself and put it in
his hands Bryce. I mean, it sounds like he's gonna have
a chance to be out here
next year. For sure. Brian
Rice is just he's awesome. He gray. Hang on. A lot of
bright. Is he one of those like, he know, he know
everything, he knows what's going on? He's gonna make
the checks, he gonna make The right Reid knows the know,
the defense. He know what's going on. What's going to come open,
where
drops out in the defense, everything? He's just
awesome quarterback. And what he's seeing, what you see last
year. He was just only sophomore. So you gotta you
gotta
tell ya, right. He's gonna be pissed about
another year behind that anger. You say? Yeah. No doubt.
Hey, Jameson the question. You're going to get over and
over again. When do you expect to get your clearance to get
back on the field and get at it?
Hopefully as soon as possible, but it's not something I'm
going to rush or anything. I'm just going to take my time and
just make sure I'm 100% before anything
to make sure. I take care of myself and
I've been hearing about five to seven months though. But like
I've been hearing, I'm also ahead of schedule. So
things could go. Well,
these could be early.
I'm not sure on the time period. I'm just hoping to get
back 100%. Like I said.
That's a smart way to do it the right way to do it yourself
healthy, and then everything else will take care of itself.
Congratulations on your success. All the best moving
forward. We look forward to talking to you at some point
down the road. Thank you. Appreciate you.