There aren't many 17-year-olds who can do what Ryan Williams did in Alabama's SEC opener on Saturday.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— In case anyone needed reminding, Ryan Williams is 17 years old. The conventional expectation is not for individuals of that age to be responsible for co-authoring one of the greatest moments in recent SEC football history. Williams, however, is anything but a conventional 17-year-old.
He made a sensational back-shoulder catch, spinning two Georgia defenders into one another as he raced into the end zone. Following a successful two-point conversion, the Crimson Tide was able to hold on and win 41-34. Everything about the play, even before the yards after contact, effectively worked to perfection: Milroe's placement of the throw was exactly where it had to be for Williams to catch it inbounds and have the opportunity to make a play.
"Whenever the ball was in the air , I felt it going to my back shoulder, so I said, I've gotta open up, like now," he said. "I opened up, I caught it, and I'm running, and I was like, 'Oh, I can't get tackled!' So I did a spin move, and it was in, like, slow motion. It was a little faster on the screen."
"It's hard to say," Milroe remarked about which of Williams' plays impressed him most. "That man's always making a play on the ball," he added with a laugh.
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