[4] Growing up middle class, his parents were divorced by 1983[4] and Williams, at the age of three, began taking care of his younger sister Nisey by putting her to bed.

[10] At San Diego's Patrick Henry High School, Williams primarily played baseball and football, in addition to running track and wrestling.

[18] Following two weeks of rest, Williams suited up for the first round of the CIF-San Diego Section Division 1 playoffs and, playing through pain from the injury, posted 94 yards on 25 carries in a 15–14 win.

[33] Williams moved to running back for his junior year in 1997, and Bob Griese's Football Magazine considered him as the second-best candidate for the Heisman Trophy going into the season.

[41] Texas provided him with a $2.8 million insurance policy for returning, in the event that he became injured and was picked lower in the draft as a result.

[51] In a game against Baylor, in which he rushed for 259 yards,[52] Williams broke the NCAA Division I-A record for career points scored with 428.

[53] Williams broke the NCAA Division I-A career rushing record held by Tony Dorsett on November 27, 1998, in a game against Texas A&M, on a 60-yard touchdown run.

An outfielder, Williams played in 170 games and finished his career with a .211 batting average, four home runs, and 46 stolen bases.

[75] During his third year, he was teammates with Phillies' eventual starting shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who declared Williams the fastest man he had ever seen.

[77] He played in 12 games for Batavia, hitting .288, before cutting his season short to return to Texas for his senior year of football.

[79] Williams was placed on the Rangers' 40-man major league roster, but he wrote a letter in March 1999 to the team stating he would not report for spring training so he could prepare for the NFL draft.

[93][94] The contract was criticized by legions of people, both sports agents and writers, who realized that Williams's position entitled him to much more in guaranteed money.

[95] In the 2020 BET docuseries No Limit Chronicles, Williams emphasized that he personally pushed for the terms of the contract, stating that the signing bonus was his "reward for what [he] did in college, but everything else [he does he] should have [had] to earn.

"[96] After spraining his ankle in the preseason and battling injuries throughout his rookie year, he made only one incentive and earned only $125,000, the league minimum, prompting further criticism of No Limit Sports and his agent Leland Hardy.

The Saints finished the 2000 regular season with a 10–6 record and won the franchise's first-ever playoff game against the St. Louis Rams.

Besides keeping to himself, Williams was known for conducting post-game interviews with his helmet on (complete with tinted visor) and avoiding eye contact.

[116] It was announced on May 14, 2004, that Williams tested positive for marijuana in December 2003 and faced a $650,000 fine and a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy.

Shortly before training camp was to begin in July 2004, Williams publicly disclosed his intent to retire from professional football.

[120] Williams officially returned to the Dolphins on July 24, 2005, paid back a percentage of his signing bonus and completed his four-game suspension for a failed drug test.

[121] At his return press conference, Williams expressed his apologies for leaving the team two days before the start of training camp, which had contributed to the Dolphins' having their worst season in years.

[122][123][124][125] On February 20, 2006, the National Football League announced that Williams had violated the NFL drug policy for the fourth time.

The CFL had no substance abuse policy in place, nor did it prohibit its teams from signing players suspended from other leagues, despite Williams being under contract with the Dolphins for the 2006 season.

[135] Shortly after injuring his arm, Williams suffered yet another injury after a door at the Argonauts' practice facility swung behind him and clipped the running back on his left achilles tendon requiring 16 stitches to close the gash.

"I was thinking it wouldn't be bad to come back up here and kind of follow the same steps as Pinner – play here a couple years and maybe get a chance to coach up here", Williams said.

He rushed six times for 15 yards before Lawrence Timmons, a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, stepped on his right shoulder, tearing his pectoral muscle.

[147] Williams bounced back in the 2008 season, rushing for 659 yards on 160 carries and scoring four touchdowns while playing in all 16 games for the Dolphins.

[148][149] In 2009, during the Dolphins ninth game, starting running back Ronnie Brown suffered a season-ending injury,[150] and Williams, at age 32, became the starter for the remainder of the year.

[162] In 2013, Williams was hired as the running backs coach at the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, where he worked for two seasons.

[176] Williams is in the first year of a master's program at Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, CA.

[186] Fulford, who was indicted by the FBI in December 2016, continued her criminal activity until sentenced in February 2018 to 10 years in prison and full financial restitution (unlikely) to her victims.