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Preston Williams – August 24, 2020

Monday, August 24, 2020

WR Preston Williams

(We haven’t had a chance to talk since I think October, so I wanted to ask you about the injury, the rehab, what your mindset was like and how you feel now?) – “Getting injured – it’s not my first rodeo with the ACL, the knee injury. I just knew I needed to work as hard as I could to get back in time for camp. I just came here every day, stayed here the whole summer, all offseason, worked my ass off. Now I’m getting my reps at practice, so I’m just happy to be out there with the guys.”

(When did you have a knee injury before? At what level – was it college, was it high school? How did that experience teach you about what you needed to do to get back now?) – “I had it in high school my senior year on my senior night. I left high school early to go to college and start rehab. Jumping on it quick helps a lot and being really dedicated. It’s all about how you work. I knew when I got this one, I just needed to work very hard to get back.”

(We got a taste to see what you could do on the field last year. You kind of balled out a bit. What can you take out of that rookie year going into year two, and obviously want to do better than that?) – “Last year, I was just getting my feet wet. Just improve as a player from last year. A lot of the balls I could’ve caught, I’ve got to catch those and make those plays. Overall, just be a better player. The game slowed down a little bit to me, so I think I’ll have a better year this year.”

(QB Ryan Fitzpatrick was just talking about how you, and WR DeVante Parker is a nice duo to have because you guys have a lot of similarities. I’m curious, do you and him have any kind of competition going at all between you in terms of who is going to have more catches, who is going to have more yards, touchdowns, all of that?) – “Nah, we just feed off of each other. If DeVante makes a play, I want to make a play. If I make a play, DeVante wants to make a play. We do whatever we need to do to help the team.”

(How are you adapting to the new system and the new terminology here under Offensive Coordinator Chan Gailey and how this offense benefits your skillset?) – “I’m adapting pretty well, learning more positions. It’s more simple, I can say that. I feel like I fit in this offense pretty well, just by looking at the past people he had, with Brandon Marshall and all of them. Just the same body frame and stuff. I think this offense is real unique and I like it.”

(Do you have any statistical goals for yourself this year?) – “Stay healthy.”

(With this offense, we hear a lot about how you can make your own route adjustments as a receiver. Can you go through that for us, like what is the freedom that it gives you and how you think that benefits you?) – “Coach Chan (Gailey) always says get open. That’s our No. 1 job. They give you a lot of freedom, and you know you have time. He says you have a lot of time to work the DB and get open. Getting open that’s all we know, that’s all we try to do.”

(Just wondering your thoughts on the stadium allowing a limited number of fans. Is 13,000 fans better than none? I’m also curious what’s it going to be like going to one stadium where there are going to be some fans and maybe an empty stadium the next week? What’s that kind of going to be like?) – “I guess we’ll just treat it like practice. There is nobody here right now, so I guess we’ll treat it the same. I don’t know exactly what the number is. I haven’t heard anything about the fans being in the stadium. We’ll see when we get there.”

(What’s it like having another 6-3-plus guy on the other side of you in WR DeVante Parker? Do you all have any good nicknames yet for your duo?) – “Not yet. Hopefully we can find one or the fans give us a nickname or something. Hopefully we’ll get one.”

(I’ve been real impressed with how you look. I didn’t really expect you to look so up to speed. I’m thinking you’re about 90 percent. Can you tell me if that’s good or if it’s actually higher? But also, I’m wondering what’s the moment where you said, ‘I’m back, I’m good, my knee is good?’ When was that moment?) – “Probably in the summer. Just being here with the training staff and in the weight room, just getting that work in. We were just working on all the little things. Percentage-wise, I don’t know how I feel. It’s up and down. The first day we stepped on the field, it felt back to normal to me.”

(Did you have that moment when you said, ‘Ok, it’s good?’ You said during practice in the summer; but did you have that moment when you said ‘Ok, I’m past this?’) – “I had that moment where I knew I could go back and compete. Just from my last injury, I knew my timeframe and what I did to be back at a certain time. I just did the same thing I did last time.”  

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