CFB Index

#14

Quinnen Williams

Alabama Saban Era · 2018

The era's purest interior-line season — 19.5 tackles for loss from the three-technique, no NFL career has yet eclipsed the college version.

2018 Outland · 19.5 TFL · 8 sacks · 71 tackles as a 3-tech

Williams' 2018 was the kind of season offensive coordinators built protections around. He won the Outland Trophy as a redshirt sophomore at a position that doesn't usually get the trophy, and his 19.5 tackles for loss are still the gold standard for an interior-line season in the era. The Jets took him third overall and have largely failed to surround him with anything; the Alabama version, against the SEC West and the Playoff, remains the master tape. He is the argument for why the position-by-position list of the CFP era still has interior defensive line in the top 20.

Cohort divergence

Stat-folks rank

#8

Casual-fans rank

#18

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Prior edition rank: \u00b7 Movement: ↑ NEW

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