Marcus Williams is an NFL safety who currently plays for the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL). Williams’ love of football began in high school, where he played as a wide receiver. He had a very successful season recording forty-one (41) passes for 924 yards and 9 touchdowns. After a productive high school career, he would play college football at Utah before rising to the top of the soccer league in America.
Marcus Williams Bio
Williams (Marcus Alan Williams) was born in Corona, California on September 8, 1996. He attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Eastvale, California, where he began his football career playing as both a wide receiver and a defenseman .
Marcus initially had a flair for basketball but soon changed to football after seeing one of his brothers when he was just eight years old, he fell in love with football and has stuck with it ever since.
As a senior, Marcus had forty-one (41) passes for 924 yards and 9 touchdowns. He also ran and played basketball. He played the first half of his senior season without receiving a scholarship of any kind from any kind of school, but towards the end of the season he received offers from the California Golden Bears football team and even of the Washington Huskies football team, but chose to commit to the University of Utah.
As a freshman at Utah, Marcus played thirteen games this season, starting six of them. He finished his first year with the team with fifty-nine (59) tackles and one interception. In his sophomore year, he recorded sixty-five (65) tackles and 5 interceptions in thirteen starts to earn first-team All-Pac-12.
Despite missing a few games in his junior season due to injury, he still played in eleven (11) games, recording sixty-four tackles and five interceptions, and was selected to an All-Pac-12 second team. After his junior season, he entered the 2017 NFL Draft, finishing his college career with a total of eleven (11) interceptions and 188 tackles.
NFL Draft pundits and sportswriters projected that Marcus Williams would be selected in the first or second round of the draft and that their predictions were accurate as he was drafted in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
NFL Career
After announcing his eligibility for the NFL Draft, Williams received an invite to the European Championship where he displayed explosive speed and jumped 43.5 inches to be rated a three-star rookie by Rivals.
NFL analysts ranked it the 5th best free safety system in the draft, while Sports Illustrated and NFLDraftScout.com ranked it 3rd best and ESPN ranked it 8th best.
The New Orleans Saints drafted Marcus Williams as the 42nd overall in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft and he became the 6th safety to be selected in the draft. In June, he signed a 4-year contract with the franchise for $6.24 million, including $3.42 million in guaranteed money and a signing bonus of $2.67 million.
In training camp, he competed for the safe starting free position with Vonn Bell, who he later backed up in the regular season. His first game in the NFL was against the Minnesota Vikings. This match was his first career start and it was also in this match that he recorded 5 fights combined.
He would then finish his rookie season with a total of seventy-three (73) combined tackles, 7 passing deflections and 4 interceptions in the 15 games he played, starting with the fifteen. In 2018, Marcus Williams started his first career playoff game and recorded 8 combined tackles and one passing deflection.
His family
His parents are Franschell and Sylvester Williams. Marcus is the youngest of the couple’s four sons. He has three older brothers – Brian, Eric and Jonathan. Brian is 14 years older than Marcus. Eric is 9 years older and Jonathan four years older than him.
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Williams’ family is a close-knit family that does things together. Despite the age differences between Marcus and his older brothers, they still find time for fun activities like camping, hiking, fishing, cards, dominoes, and more.
He is also a member of a very disciplined and cultured family. Speaking of his family, Willimas recalled remembering how his mother taught him to be his own person, to be a leader, not a follower.
Height, weight and body measurements
Williams stands at a height of 1.85m and weighs 88kg. His arm length is 32 1/2″ and his hand size is 9 1/2″.