Tight end, Arkansas, 2007–10
D.J. Williams
- Number
- No. 45
- Height
- 6′2″
- Hometown
- Little Rock, AR
- Born
- Sep 10, 1988, in Dallas, Texas
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D.J. Williams played tight end at Arkansas (2007–10). He won the 2010 John Mackey Award. The Green Bay Packers took Williams in round 5, No. 141 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Career highs
10catches, career highvs. Ole Miss, 2008137receiving yards, career highvs. South Carolina, 20092receiving touchdowns, career hightwice; last vs. UTEP, 2010Honors
Receiving
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006N | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007N | 12 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2009 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| On file | 10 | 5 | 15 | |
Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.
On the roster
As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.
Game by game
2010 Arkansas 13 games, 54 catches, 627 yards, 4 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | vs. Tennessee Tech | W 44–3 | 5 | 68 | 0 | 19 |
| Sep 11 | vs. UL Monroe | W 31–7 | 3 | 44 | 0 | 17 |
| Sep 18 | at Georgia | W 31–24 | 6 | 61 | 0 | 18 |
| Sep 25 | vs. Alabama | L 20–24 | 5 | 63 | 0 | 18 |
| Oct 9 | vs. Texas A&M | W 24–17 | 3 | 23 | 0 | 11 |
| Oct 16 | at Auburn | L 43–65 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 6 |
| Oct 23 | vs. Ole Miss | W 38–24 | 2 | 55 | 0 | 46 |
| Oct 30 | vs. Vanderbilt | W 49–14 | 4 | 32 | 1 | 12 |
| Nov 6 | at South Carolina | W 41–20 | 5 | 67 | 0 | 19 |
| Nov 13 | vs. UTEP | W 58–21 | 5 | 58 | 2 | 32 |
| Nov 20 | at Mississippi State | W 38–31 | 4 | 70 | 1 | 32 |
| Nov 27 | vs. LSU | W 31–23 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 15 |
| Jan 4 ✦ | vs. Ohio State | L 26–31 | 5 | 38 | 0 | 18 |
2009 Arkansas 9 games, 32 catches, 411 yards, 3 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | vs. Missouri State | W 48–10 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 12 |
| Sep 19 | vs.Georgia | L 41–52 | 4 | 58 | 1 | 40 |
| Sep 26 | atAlabama | L 7–35 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 23 |
| Oct 10 | vs.Auburn | W 44–23 | 6 | 57 | 1 | 18 |
| Oct 31 | vs. Eastern Michigan | W 63–27 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 5 |
| Nov 7 | vs.South Carolina | W 33–16 | 7 | 137 | 0 | 69 |
| Nov 14 | vs. Troy | W 56–20 | 4 | 62 | 1 | 28 |
| Nov 21 | vs.Mississippi State | W 42–21 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 15 |
| Jan 2 ✦ | vs. East Carolina | W 20–17 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
2008 Arkansas 10 games, 58 catches, 699 yards, 3 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30 | vs. Western Illinois | W 28–24 | 5 | 45 | 0 | 15 |
| Sep 6 | vs.UL Monroe | W 28–27 | 5 | 124 | 2 | 76 |
| Sep 20 | vs.Alabama | L 14–49 | 5 | 48 | 0 | 13 |
| Sep 27 | at Texas | L 10–52 | 4 | 39 | 0 | 26 |
| Oct 4 | vs. Florida | L 7–38 | 6 | 35 | 0 | 13 |
| Oct 25 | vs.Ole Miss | L 21–23 | 10 | 129 | 0 | 41 |
| Nov 1 | vs. Tulsa | W 30–23 | 6 | 129 | 0 | 44 |
| Nov 8 | atSouth Carolina | L 21–34 | 4 | 40 | 0 | 23 |
| Nov 22 | atMississippi State | L 28–31 | 5 | 59 | 1 | 22 |
| Nov 28 | vs.LSU | W 31–30 | 8 | 51 | 0 | 22 |
2007 Arkansas 5 games, 5 catches, 94 yards
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | vs.Troy | W 46–26 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| Sep 22 | vs. Kentucky | L 29–42 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 24 |
| Sep 29 | vs. North Texas | W 66–7 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 28 |
| Oct 13 | vs.Auburn | L 7–9 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Nov 23 | atLSU | W 50–48 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2011 |
|---|---|
| Height | 6′2⅛″ |
| Weight | 245 lb |
| Arm length | 31½″ |
| Hand size | 10⅜″ |
| Wingspan | 75¼″W |
| 40-yard dash | 4.67 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.62 sW |
| Vertical jump | 33½″ |
| Broad jump | 9′3″ |
| Bench press | 20 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 7.29 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.51 s |
Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
3 seasons, 20 games with a stat; latest team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
| Season | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Green Bay Packers | 6 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
| 2012 | Green Bay Packers | 10 | 7 | 57 | 0 |
| 2013 | New England Patriots | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 20 | 9 | 70 | 0 | |
Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.
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