{"id":1586,"date":"2015-10-02T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:14:26","slug":"wolves-alumni-tyrell-williams-named-to-chargers-regular-season-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-alumni-tyrell-williams-named-to-chargers-regular-season-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves alumni Tyrell Williams named to Chargers regular season roster."},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Jack Armstrong\r\nCopy Editor<\/pre>\n
Western alumnus Tyrell Williams (WR) has been named to the 53-man, regular season roster for the San Diego Chargers in the NFL. He made his official NFL Debut on Sep. 19, 2015 during the Chargers 33-28 win over the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n
Williams\u2019 route to the NFL was far from traditional. Williams had a stand out senior year playing for WOU. After starting 10 games, he racked up a total of 56 catches, 950 yards, and 8 touchdowns.<\/p>\n
With a successful senior season under his belt, Williams attended the Oregon State Pro Day on March 13, 2015. As an undrafted free agent, Oregon\u2019s annual pro day was a chance for Williams to work-out in front of the same scouts that evaluate players at the NFL\u2019s Draft Combine.<\/p>\n
Undrafted free agents are a unique prospect for many NFL teams looking to make a swoop for quality players who were not invited to participate in the traditional Draft.<\/p>\n
Williams actually posted times on his 40-yard dash, vertical jump, and broad leap that would have put him amongst the top 15 wide receivers in the official NFL combine. His three-cone drill time would have seen him be the best in the combine, completing the drill almost a tenth of a second faster the quickest combine player.<\/p>\n
Williams\u2019 ability to perform was not in question around Western\u2019s campus, but being an undrafted free agent does come with some additional difficulty breaking into the professional league.<\/p>\n
Often talented colligate players are left out of the NFL combine for a variety of reasons. Some reasons are as simple as a coming from a division two school like Williams coming from Western; some reasons are as complicated as on-going criminal investigations like Louisiana State\u2019s La\u2019El Collins (OT).<\/p>\n
Regardless of why he was left undrafted, Williams proved himself during pro day and hasn\u2019t looked back. After being signed to the Chargers pre-season squad, he put together a string of impressive performances including 10 receptions in 4 games for a total of 137 yards. One of those receptions led to a 63 yard touchdown.<\/p>\n
After the brief possibility of being waived in-favor of a more senior player, it was announced that Williams would be named in the 53-man squad for the Chargers 2015-2016 regular season.<\/p>\n
He is currently listed as a practice squad player, however, given the recent injury woes experienced by San Diego – especially fellow wide receiver Jacoby Jones (ankle) \u2013 Williams could get a full NFL game-day debut soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Western alumnus Tyrell Williams (WR) has been named to the 53-man, regular season roster for the San Diego Chargers in the NFL. He made his official NFL Debut on Sep. 19, 2015 during the Chargers 33-28 win over the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}