All-American recommends USC coaches to 4-star CB Jamyest Williams
July 18, 2016
Jalen Tabor sang praises of Travaris Robinson, who got him to Florida
Gamecocks made Grayson HS star’s top five, which includes Clemson, Ohio State
Georgia product plans to make a silent commitment this summer
With any recommendation, you have to trust the source. When a fellow player sang the praises of South Carolina co-defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson to 2017 cornerback Jamyest Williams, the four-star Georgia product listened.
It helps when the advocate is Jalen Tabor, a former five-star prospect Robinson recruited who blossomed into an All-American at Florida.
Williams talked to Tabor on a flight returning from Portland, Oregon, where Williams participated in The Opening (for the second time). Tabor talked up the relationship he still has with Robinson, Williams’ primary recruiter, more than a year after Robinson and Will Muschamp left Florida.
And what allowed South Carolina to make the cut for Williams’ top five along with Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and Tennessee?
“My relationship with T-Rob and Muschamp,” Williams said.
He said the staff has been coming at him hard, with those two coaches making a good deal of contact. He’d been recruited by the previous staff, but said there’s something different, an energy he could see and feel when he came to spring practice.
They gave him a pitch that’s been part of the current recruiting push: appealing to him as a top player who can come and start something. They wanted him to become one of the first big players to make the jump with this staff and team, to be one others could follow.
“They need me, you know?” Williams said. “They need me and they said it’s a great opportunity in coming there and getting some playing time. That’s always huge.”
He also said he considered the state of South Carolina’s cornerback position, which is thin and lacking many proven players.
Williams isn’t the biggest player, but he’s a dynamic athlete and casts himself in a role similar to former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu or Florida State’s Lamarcus Joyner. He stands at 5-foot-9, but posted 50 tackles and a pair of interceptions for Archer High School in Georgia, with 1,250 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns for good measure (he has since transferred to powerhouse Grayson).
To thrive at that size, he’s had to rely on technique, IQ and especially physicality. On one play at a 7-on-7 national championship in Hoover, Ala., he played press coverage and planted his hands on the shoulders of a charging receiver, controlling him so thoroughly that a referee came over and told him to knock it off. (The opponent hardly threw Williams’ direction the rest of the way.)
Williams plans to silently commit soon to his school of choice and will possibly announce publicly during the season, he said.
And after being pitched that he could be the first domino to fall in leading a Gamecocks program back to prominence, he seems interested in starting something.
“I just know if I decide, I know there’s going to be other guys who decide they want to go there, too,” Williams said. “I know great players want to play with great players. That’s exactly what I want to do. I wouldn’t go there if I didn’t see a great opportunity.”
July 18, 2016
Jalen Tabor sang praises of Travaris Robinson, who got him to Florida
Gamecocks made Grayson HS star’s top five, which includes Clemson, Ohio State
Georgia product plans to make a silent commitment this summer
With any recommendation, you have to trust the source. When a fellow player sang the praises of South Carolina co-defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson to 2017 cornerback Jamyest Williams, the four-star Georgia product listened.
It helps when the advocate is Jalen Tabor, a former five-star prospect Robinson recruited who blossomed into an All-American at Florida.
Williams talked to Tabor on a flight returning from Portland, Oregon, where Williams participated in The Opening (for the second time). Tabor talked up the relationship he still has with Robinson, Williams’ primary recruiter, more than a year after Robinson and Will Muschamp left Florida.
And what allowed South Carolina to make the cut for Williams’ top five along with Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and Tennessee?
“My relationship with T-Rob and Muschamp,” Williams said.
He said the staff has been coming at him hard, with those two coaches making a good deal of contact. He’d been recruited by the previous staff, but said there’s something different, an energy he could see and feel when he came to spring practice.
They gave him a pitch that’s been part of the current recruiting push: appealing to him as a top player who can come and start something. They wanted him to become one of the first big players to make the jump with this staff and team, to be one others could follow.
“They need me, you know?” Williams said. “They need me and they said it’s a great opportunity in coming there and getting some playing time. That’s always huge.”
He also said he considered the state of South Carolina’s cornerback position, which is thin and lacking many proven players.
Williams isn’t the biggest player, but he’s a dynamic athlete and casts himself in a role similar to former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu or Florida State’s Lamarcus Joyner. He stands at 5-foot-9, but posted 50 tackles and a pair of interceptions for Archer High School in Georgia, with 1,250 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns for good measure (he has since transferred to powerhouse Grayson).
To thrive at that size, he’s had to rely on technique, IQ and especially physicality. On one play at a 7-on-7 national championship in Hoover, Ala., he played press coverage and planted his hands on the shoulders of a charging receiver, controlling him so thoroughly that a referee came over and told him to knock it off. (The opponent hardly threw Williams’ direction the rest of the way.)
Williams plans to silently commit soon to his school of choice and will possibly announce publicly during the season, he said.
And after being pitched that he could be the first domino to fall in leading a Gamecocks program back to prominence, he seems interested in starting something.
“I just know if I decide, I know there’s going to be other guys who decide they want to go there, too,” Williams said. “I know great players want to play with great players. That’s exactly what I want to do. I wouldn’t go there if I didn’t see a great opportunity.”
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