He was selected by the New York Giants in the seventh round of the 1983 NFL draft.
[1] He played college football and ran track at North Carolina State.
He held the 55m indoor track record in 1983 with a time of 6.22 seconds.
[2] Together with George Martin, Williams is an alum of Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham (BA 1987), as the first two Giants players to graduate from the school's NFL degree completion program.
[3] He works at Long Island University Post (LIU) as the Director of Sports Management.