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2025 Football Roster

Jersey Number 18
BJ Williams
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 273
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Johnston, S.C.
- High School:
- Strom Thurmond
2025 (Redshirt Senior)
Appeared in all 12 regular season games… Made three total tackles and blocked a kick… Played 264 snaps, primarily on special teams… Ranked by PFF as the No. 9 special teams player (any position) in the ACC (of qualified 100+ snap players).
2024 (Redshirt Junior):
Started all twelve games of the season...Ended the season with a career-high 23 total tackles, including nine solo and 14 assisted...Recorded a career-high four tackles against UConn...Finished with 2.5 tackles-for-losses.
2023 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Saw action in 11 games during the 2023 season… Finished the season with a career-high 11 tackles with three solo tackles and two pass breakups… Tied his career-high with three tackles against Elon and Clemson.
2022 (Redshirt Freshman)
Saw action in five games during the 2022 season, helping lead the team to its seventh consecutive bowl game and back-to-back bowl wins with a victory over Missouri in the Gasparilla Bowl…Finished the season with three tackles recording them against VMI, Army and North Carolina.
2021 (Freshman)
Did not see action during the 2021 season...Redshirted
High School
Played for Head Coach Antwaun Hillary … Rated as the No. 19 prospect in the state of South Carolina by 247sports … Limited to three games in 2020 due to COVID-19 … Earned Region Defensive Player of the Year honors as a junior … Caught 12 passes for 171 yards and three touchdowns in the 2019 season … Was a team captain and two-time Defensive Player of the Game at Strom Thurmond … Football and Basketball team captain … Earned All-Region honors in basketball … Placed on academic honor roll all four years at Strom Thurmond … Selected to the Georgia/South Carolina All-Star Game.
Personal
Son of Renee and Brandon Williams
Appeared in all 12 regular season games… Made three total tackles and blocked a kick… Played 264 snaps, primarily on special teams… Ranked by PFF as the No. 9 special teams player (any position) in the ACC (of qualified 100+ snap players).
2024 (Redshirt Junior):
Started all twelve games of the season...Ended the season with a career-high 23 total tackles, including nine solo and 14 assisted...Recorded a career-high four tackles against UConn...Finished with 2.5 tackles-for-losses.
2023 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Saw action in 11 games during the 2023 season… Finished the season with a career-high 11 tackles with three solo tackles and two pass breakups… Tied his career-high with three tackles against Elon and Clemson.
2022 (Redshirt Freshman)
Saw action in five games during the 2022 season, helping lead the team to its seventh consecutive bowl game and back-to-back bowl wins with a victory over Missouri in the Gasparilla Bowl…Finished the season with three tackles recording them against VMI, Army and North Carolina.
2021 (Freshman)
Did not see action during the 2021 season...Redshirted
High School
Played for Head Coach Antwaun Hillary … Rated as the No. 19 prospect in the state of South Carolina by 247sports … Limited to three games in 2020 due to COVID-19 … Earned Region Defensive Player of the Year honors as a junior … Caught 12 passes for 171 yards and three touchdowns in the 2019 season … Was a team captain and two-time Defensive Player of the Game at Strom Thurmond … Football and Basketball team captain … Earned All-Region honors in basketball … Placed on academic honor roll all four years at Strom Thurmond … Selected to the Georgia/South Carolina All-Star Game.
Personal
Son of Renee and Brandon Williams
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