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Preston Williams – October 13, 2021 Download PDF version

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

WR Preston Williams

(Obviously the first practice with QB Tua Tagovailoa being back. How do you think he looked and with him missing three weeks, do you think that you and him maybe need to work a little extra to get that chemistry back? How do you think it looked?) – “Tua’s a professional. When Tua gets back, he’s always working on his craft. Even when he’s injured, just how he stays in-tune with the team, watching film, being at practice, calling the plays up. At times he wasn’t even playing and he’d come over to me and be like, ‘hey, what do you have right here? Just trying to make sure I know my stuff.’ Tua is professional. I felt good about him being back out there.”

(That sense of involvement from QB Tua Tagovailoa, like you said, when he’s not even playing. To come up to you and stay in communication, is that something that you’ve seen him kind of adapt over the past years? Is that something you’ve seen him mature into?) – “No, Tua has always been a leader in my eyes. I used to watch him at Alabama too. He’s seemed like the right guy for the job always, in my opinion. Tua is always making sure everybody is straight. When Tua goes down, we all stay and rally behind him. We’re glad that he’s back.”

(QB Tua Tagovailoa is a guy that dating back to your last game last season, before he got hurt in that game, you had several catches and it seemed like you guys had good rapport working together. How much do you think back to something like that and building off that?) – “The plays get called and we just execute them. It’s the same thing that we do in practice. That’s how all of that went about. Tua will always throw to the open guy. I wouldn’t say he has any favorites. He’s going to make the right read and make the right pass.”

(I was asking Co-Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends George Godsey about the things that you need to do to make sure that you become the best version of yourself. In my opinion, the ceiling is quite high. He mentioned mastery of the offense and mastery of the playbook and the mastery of route-running. Tell me about how you’ve approached working on those sorts of things and refining your game?) – “This year I was asked to play a couple of different positions than I usually had been playing, so just learning the whole playbook. It’s different. It’s the quarterback’s job but when you learn the whole playbook, you can play faster. So I’ve just been playing three different positions and just working on my routes, just taking the coaching they’re giving me and just trying to apply it. I work on my craft every day at practice.”

(So is it X, Y and Z?) – “Nah, I don’t play the Y. I play X, F and Z.”

(Which spot is WR DeVante Parker usually?) – “X, Y and Z. We all play – this offense, we all play all positions so you’ve just got to be ready to hop in wherever.”

(If WR DeVante Parker is unable to play – we don’t know yet. What do you enjoy about the types of routes that he is often called upon to run?) – “I like DeVante’s route tree. DeVante can run any route they ask him to run. If they want to throw him a swing, they could throw him a swing and DeVante would get those YACs (yards after catch). DeVante was a first-round pick back in the day. DeVante is a vet. I looked up at DeVante when I got here. DeVante has been stringing me along and I just appreciate him.”

(WR DeVante Parker, even if he’s covered, will still make contested catches.) – “Yeah, he’s got ball skills.”

(Do you feel the same way with yourself?) – “Yeah, you’ve got to have confidence to play receiver.”

(How much better do you feel about your game today as opposed to one, two or three weeks ago when you were still trying to come back?) – “Just being away for the whole camp and not being able to work on my craft, that was just different. The fact that I’m back now and practicing and getting game reps and getting to work on my craft every day, I feel way better going into these next couple of weeks.”

(Do you have any connections to London or England? Have you ever traveled to Europe or anything like that?) – “No, I don’t have anything in London. I’m excited though. I’m excited to go play the Jacksonville Jaguars out there too.”

(I was working with a guy who does a podcast in London and you were one of the big topics of conversation on that show in London this week. Does it blow your mind that you have fans over there and the stadium is going to be filled with some jerseys of yours watching you play all the way across the pond?) – “I remember we were supposed to go out there last year and we didn’t go. They kind of were reaching out to me on Twitter. I didn’t even know I had fans in London until that week. That’s pretty cool having international fans like that. I support it, 100 percent.”

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