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Receiver Williams catching attention
« on: April 14, 2015, 09:44:14 AM »
Receiver Williams catching attention
By: Scott Keepfer, greenvillenewssc.com


 CLEMSON — Once again, Mike Williams left ’em shaking their heads.

Williams, a junior wide receiver who already has logged a career’s worth of nifty catches, added to his personal highlight reel in Clemson University’s spring game Saturday with an eye-catching, one-handed grab along the sideline for a 16-yard gain.

The reception, which drew audible oohs and aahs from the 37,000 fans in attendance, was so impressive that even Williams himself confessed to its notability.

“It was a great catch,” Williams said. “A lot of people were talking about it.”

Granted, it was just a spring game, but the catch served further notice that Clemson fans may be in for a fall filled with big plays courtesy of the rangy, 6foot-4 receiver with the glue-like hands.

Saturday was merely a warm-up, but Williams appeared to be in mid-seasonform. He hauled in a 50-yard reception on the game’s opening play, then snagged a 19-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Nick Schuessler two plays later.

By day’s end, Williams had five receptions for 105 yards and two touchdowns.

“Mike’s the kind of guy who’s a quiet assassin,” Clemson co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott said. “He does his job over there and then all of a sudden he just pops up and makes big plays.”

Big plays have become a matter of course for the Lake Marion High product, who appears poised to take another step forward after a second-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference season that saw him make 57 catches for a team-high 1,030 yards. He had four 100-yard receiving games as a sophomore, capping the campaign with a nine-catch, 112-yard effort in the Tigers’ Russell Athletic Bowl romp against Oklahoma.

“We’ve been working on him becoming a physical player on the boundary with all the one-on-one matchups he gets,” Scott said. “He’s got a big body and he’s a strong guy, so we really want to see him take that next step, much like DeAndre Hopkins did the spring going into his junior year — really getting strong in the weight room and coming out and having a great junior season. I think that’s the track Mike is on now.”

He should hope so. Hopkins had a breakout junior season and became a first-round pick of the Houston Texans in the 2013 NFL Draft.

“I haven’t been thinking about that yet,” Williams said. “I’m just trying to finish my season here and everything else will fall into place.”

In the meantime, Williams is intent on joining a growing list of standouts that have helped transform Clemson into “Wide Receiver University.”

“It’s a great group of receivers that has come out of here,” Williams said. “We’ve just got to keep that standard going and be the best that we can be and go out there and play like Clemson receiversshould.” If one-handed grabs and acrobatic touchdown catches continue to be part of Williams’ repertoire, that much should be a given.

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