Williams, a graduate junior quarterback, spoke Monday about his plan to forego his last year of eligibility in order to join SEAL training as a way to carry on his family’s legacy of military service.
“I love football and it’s so great,” Williams
said on KSL Sports Zone’s Hans and Scotty G. show. “But I knew that, eventually, it was going to come to an end.”
“I just want to be in a spot where I can protect this great country where we get to play football with the freedom to do that. I think this is the best country in the world. So I’d like to keep it that way and protect it as long as I can.”
If chosen when the selection process begins in February, Williams’s training would begin in the summer, with graduation sometime later in 2024,
according KSL Sports.