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I love Dorsey, but I'm not sure about this pick. He could be really good. He could also be a big disappointment. I get that is a generic statement that can apply to almost everyone, but I'll elaborate a bit.

Greedy has great athletic talent. He's very good in coverage. He has good ball skills.

On the other hand, he refused to tackle and regressed this past year. That speaks to effort. I'm not a fan of low-effort players.

Perhaps he was coasting so he wouldn't get injured and hurt his draft status, but what will he do in his contract year? What will he do when he needs to make a real stop when the game on the line? Will he make "business decisions?"

I'm not saying he is a bad pick, but multiple tweets posted by one poster will not convince me that it was a good pick. Tweets look real cool on here, but most of them don't carry much weight.

This is also great if Ward cant make it thru next season.
Concussions big concern with Ward in my book.

ESPN said he did play with an injury (shoulder?) his senior year.

Why is Greedy Williams skipping LSU's bowl game? Ask his family
By Brody Miller | Posted December 05, 2018 at 01:01 PM


Why was Greedy Williams crying?

His sisters assumed he just had the family come down from Shreveport to Baton Rouge for his 21st birthday. He hadn’t seen most of them since September.

They spent the weekend together: him, his mother, Lakesha, his older sisters, Keandre and Andrea. They FaceTimed in his brother, Rodarius, who plays at Oklahoma State.

They just sat around and spent time together. They ate fried chicken, red beans and rice, shrimp fried rice, everything.

It felt like old times, the Shreveport family that moved from Allendale to the projects of Illinois Street to the crime-heavy Cooper Road, together, enjoying a night of the kind of comfort that only family can bring.

But this weekend wasn’t about the past. This weekend was about the future, and how Greedy Williams was about to change that future for him and his family.

“Untouchable” by YoungBoy Never Broke Again started playing in the background. It’s a song about getting out of Baton Rouge and succeeding after nights without food, about doing it for his family.

Suddenly, Williams started to break down into tears. He didn’t say anything. He just let it all out and cried.

His sisters didn’t know why. They assumed he was just crying because the whole family was together again. But he knew why. The reality of his dreams began to hit him.

Twenty-four hours later, Williams announced he was declaring for the NFL Draft. A projected Top-5 pick, Williams could earn a signing bonus north of $20 million.


Williams also will sit out the Fiesta Bowl to avoid injury before the draft, a move that angered some LSU fans who said he was abandoning his team.

But those people don’t know that Lakesha Williams wouldn't let her son go outside in the tough Shreveport neighborhoods in which he grew up.

“Not many make it out,” she said. “It seemed like every day somebody was killed ... lots of drugs and shooting. I could go on and on.”

They don’t know that Greedy Williams at 19 had a daughter whom he doesn’t let leave his sight. They don’t know the Williams family prayed at night that he would get through the season without getting injured, hurting his chances at the NFL.

So, why was Williams crying in his apartment to “Untouchable” and not telling his siblings the reason? Why is Williams skipping the bowl game to not risk his chance? Andrea Williams didn’t know in the moment, but she knows why now.

“He had the right to change our family’s lives.”

When Khloe Williams was born, she couldn’t breathe. Greedy Williams was back with the mother, and Lakesha tried to avoid telling him.

Khloe was no accident, his siblings said. Williams wanted to start a family. He was always a sensitive, family-focused kid. His mother fought cancer when he was in middle school. His grandmother did it in 2017. Family meant so much to him, and he wanted to be a father.

Khloe came at a time in Williams’ life when he doubted things more than ever. LSU redshirted him his freshman year in 2016 in order for him to gain weight. He stood on the sideline shouting and cheering, waving a towel for his teammates, but it was hard not to feel slighted. Khloe came in February 2017.

And here was this baby girl sitting in his arms, seemingly at risk. The rest of the world seemed to fade away.

Williams called LSU cornerbacks coach Corey Raymond.

“I’m not coming back,” he said. “I’m staying by my baby’s side. I’m staying right here with her.”

It wasn’t an empty threat. The Williams family had to pull him aside and talk him out of it. They said Khloe shouldn’t drag him away from his dreams but propel him toward them.

“You have a daughter now,” his eldest sister, Keandre Williams, said. “You gotta work harder. You can’t give up now.”


The rest you know. Khloe turned out fine. Williams went back to school, earned the starting job in 2017 and became a two-time first-team All-SEC cornerback and a Jim Thorpe Award finalist this year. He became arguably the best cornerback in the country with eight interceptions the past two seasons.

On top of that, Williams became a father these past 19 months. He used to get annoyed with Lakesha for being so protective, and now he doesn’t let people take Khloe away from him. Sometimes his family will try to take her back to Shreveport — Williams is a student, after all — and he will throw a fit.

His Instagram account is filled with pictures of him holding Khloe close and proud pictures of her on Halloween. There are videos of him kissing her repeatedly. He has a large tattoo of her name across his upper back.

Khloe helped him focus and realign his priorities. His world became about caring for her, and also caring so much about his craft on the football field that he could provide for her.

“I’ve seen him change from being that playful little boy to a man,” Andrea Williams said. “He was that playful little Greedy. ‘Y’all play too much, Greedy!’ But he had a kid and it kind of changed him. He did a whole 360.”

So, as much as Sunday’s move toward the pros was about his own dreams and his own pursuits of fortune, and of course that matters too, Sunday was about Khloe.

Lakesha Williams often talks about how football changed her family’s fortune in this world. Football helped bring both her sons to Power Five schools. It admittedly helped her change from her own partying ways. It helped her find a husband in their youth coach, Lonnie Bryant, who made his own sacrifices to help the family and provide when Lakesha had cancer.

Khloe is the next step in the Williams family, and the NFL Draft is the final step toward football elevating that family.

“If he gets hurt, he won’t be able to provide for his daughter,” Lakesha Williams said.


It was a scary and exciting night for Lakesha Williams. She reads the articles more than her son. She checks social media more than him, too. Sometimes she will send Williams stories about himself to read, and he just says no.

So when Williams announced to the world he was declaring for the Draft, and when it later became clear he was skipping the Fiesta Bowl, all of Lakesha’s excitement collided with the dread of what people would think.

She and Williams spoke with Ed Orgeron and Corey Raymond. Orgeron was disappointed but understood and supported them.

But then came those fan tweets about Williams quitting on his teammates and his selfishness. Then, linebacker and fellow first-round NFL prospect Devin White announced he was playing in the bowl, only giving fans more ammunition against Williams.

For Lakesha, at least, she saw the constant injuries across college football. She saw LSU defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko go out for the season with a bicep injury, cornerback Kristian Fulton get surgery on an ankle injury, and two LSU players tore their ACLs in the past five months.

If it were the College Football Playoff it might be different. It was a bowl game, though. It was a tough decision, but it wasn’t worth that slight chance he goes down.

Look back to Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith dropping in the draft after a Fiesta Bowl injury or Michigan tight end Jake Butt tearing his ACL in the Orange Bowl. Was it worth it?

“You see all the injuries and things that are happening, it’s not that he’s quitting on his team,” Lakesha said. “He gave them everything he had for three years. He sat on the sideline waving a towel cheering for everyone when he wasn’t playing.”

They looked into insurance policies, but their research showed those don’t always pay out as promised. She didn’t want Williams paying $50,000 for something that might not work out.



nstead, Lakesha spent every game day praying for her son to stay healthy. Just one gruesome injury could change his future. She begged for him to make it to December in one piece.

Williams made it to this week completely healthy. LSU isn’t playing for a championship. Williams made it this far, so close to a dream that took so much work to reach, that they couldn’t accept the risk for a game without a clear purpose.

Even Devin White, the heralded guy who made the opposite decision, went out of his way to defend Williams via Twitter.

“Very proud of the decision you made big bro, Baby K is very proud of the work you put in for LSU this season,” White wrote. “Prepare for your career, Big Unk gone finish the season off strong for y’all. Love Ya Bro.”

So, what’s next for Williams? He’ll likely go high in the NFL Draft and have tens of millions of dollars to his name overnight.

He’s not much of a spender for himself, family said, so they think he’ll probably buy a house for his mom or grandmother.

Williams definitely plans on setting up a trust fund for Khloe, though.

And that’s where the impact of this decision really lays. Yes, Greedy Williams’ life will change when he becomes an NFL player. His family member’s lives will change a good amount, too.

But Khloe Williams will grow up in a different world than her father. She won’t live on Illinois Street or Cooper Road with her parents scared to let her roam outside. She’ll grow up with all the options in the world in front of her.

“The sky is the limit for Khloe now,” Andrea Williams said.

Because football isn’t changing Khloe’s life. It’s giving her a completely new one.

Instead, I want to hear from football dudes like Tru, Dep, Pit, etc. I also want to hear from logical dudes like Clem, Cap, Purp, etc.

Maybe he just dropped. If he can cover, he will help.

From what I read, Greedy did not go and work out for any teams, preferring to rest on his combine numbers and tape. I am sure that struck more than a few teams the wrong way.