Williams wants to be the one his teammates turn to when not everything goes well and he believes he can be a “vocal leader” on offense.
“If I was in a burning building, boop, boop, boop (dialing a phone), ‘Hey I need you to come to get me.’ He’s on the way,” Jefferson said. “I mean just to put it bluntly like that and he’s a heartbeat on offense.”
In practice, Glenn said he’s a player that “demands respect,” and there’s no surprise about how he’s performed up to this point in camp.
“I guess from the outside in, everybody looks at him as a special teams player but man, there’s room for him in our offense and there’s a number of things he can do for our offense,” Glenn said. “He’s a dude.”
Regardless of his role, Williams wants to be trusted — “Whatever they need from me, I’m willing to do it,” he said.
As for those splash plays, that’s just his competitive side breaking through the surface.
“It’s just Isaiah being Isaiah,” Banjo said. “I think he’s just a sign and a very great symbol of what an ultimate competitor looks like.”