“We have a very good room and he will be really competitive to get on the ground and get shots and get targets,” said Gutekunst. “But that’s how you want, right? To win in this league, you must have players and right now, at all levels, really in all skill positions, I feel pretty good in our players.
“We have young guys who, once again, will have to develop in our offense and learn and make themselves comfortable before it can show. We have a lot of guys who come back who, I think, are at the time of their career where they are about to take off, and we are delighted with that.”
There is also a lot of enthusiasm for Williams, which brings a different body type at 6-4, 222 and skills, with its quarter-back preparation days turning into Wildcat QB use during its last season in TCU, when it was named honorable all-BIG 12 for the second consecutive year.
Williams started 38 games in the past three years for horns in horns, catching 130 assists for 1,576 yards and 14 TDs of 2022-24. He added 322 yards on the ground and six affected on the field last year, showing work as a versatile weapon that prompted Gutekunst to say that he “adapts to Matt to a T.”
“All my team needs me is what I do because that’s what I did my last year in TCU,” said Williams. “They needed me. Our racing game was not the best, so they gave me there to Wildcat and ran to me and, shoot, that’s what I did to help my team.”
Asked what attracted his attention first when he started studying Williams, Gutekunst did not hesitate to answer.
“His capacity with the ball in his hands,” he said. “Obviously, the size too … But its determination, its capacity, its insane, its power, its ability to break the plasters, these are the first things that have tense you.”
His maturity also made an impression. In 2022, Williams’ mother experienced what TCU’s publications called a “major life event” and continued to support him. The following year, his daughter was born prematurely and needs abdominal and heart surgeries during an extended stay in neonatal intensive care.
Williams shared the details of his story with the packers at an official combination meeting, then he started to feel how serious Green Bay was invited for a visit before the cog. The other day, he received a call to confirm his phone number.
“They told me how much they loved my game and things,” he said. “I sort of entered this part by thinking that it was going to be the packers.”
And packers think they added a potential playmaker who is not quite the same as those who are already in the fold.
“Matt and its offensive staff, just creativity, they can use this type of so many different ways,” said Gutekunst. “We were really excited to get it.”
