Terrance Williams

Terrance Tyrone Williams (born September 8, 1989) is an American football wide receiver for the Galgos de Tijuana of the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional (LFA).

Williams attended Baylor University, where he played for the Baylor Bears football team from 2008 to 2012.

During his college career, he had 202 receptions for 3,334 yards with 27 touchdowns.

Williams was also a Biletnikoff Award finalist for 2011.

He played college football for the Baylor Bears, earning unanimous All-American honors in 2012.

In 2012, he led the nation with 1,832 receiving yards.

He was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft, and played six seasons with the Cowboys.

Williams was born in Highland Hills, Dallas.

He attended W. T. White High School in Dallas, and played for the White Longhorns high school football team.

As a senior, he had 59 receptions for 972 yards and eight touchdowns.

Considered a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, he accepted a scholarship to Baylor over an offer from Colorado State.

In the 2013 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys traded down in the first round with the San Francisco 49ers, in exchange for a third round pick that the team used to select Williams with the 74th overall pick.

Williams struggled in training camp adjusting to the team's offense, but by the end of the preseason, he had supplanted Dwayne Harris as the third wide receiver.

Williams again struggled at the start of the regular season with his route running and dropped passes, until the fourth game against the San Diego Chargers, where he started in place of an injured Miles Austin and registered seven receptions for 71 yards, but also had a critical fumble trying to extend for a touchdown in the last minutes of the 30–21 road loss.

Williams started in the next game against the Denver Broncos, catching four passes for 151 yards and a touchdown in the narrow 51–48 loss.

By Week 8 against the Detroit Lions, Williams set a Cowboys franchise record for rookies, with a touchdown in his fourth consecutive game.

He returned to his third receiver position in Week 12 against the New York Giants and also started returning kickoffs in place of an injured Harris.

Williams finished his rookie season with 44 receptions for 736 yards (16.7 average) and five touchdowns in 16 games and eight starts.

At the time, his totals ranked fourth for most receptions, most receiving yards, and most receiving touchdowns by a rookie in franchise history.

Williams started the year looking to improve on a productive rookie campaign, immediately establishing himself as a legitimate No. 2 wideout and Deep Threat opposite Dez Bryant by catching six touchdowns in the first seven weeks.

After a strong start to his season that included a critical first down reception in a 30–23 road victory over the Seattle Seahawks, Williams slowed down catching only two touchdowns in the remaining 10 weeks, finishing the season with 37 receptions for 621 yards and eight touchdowns in 16 games and starts.

During the first playoff game of the Cowboys’ season and his career, Williams once again solidified his status as a playmaker by registering three receptions for 92 yards, while scoring two critical touchdowns against the Detroit Lions and their No. 2 ranked defense.

This included a 76-yard catch-and-run in which he caught a 14-yard pass on a slant route and ran through four defenders en route to a 76-yard touchdown as well as the game-winning 8-yard score.

Dallas won the game 24–20.

In the divisional round against the Green Bay Packers, Williams drew a pass interference in the first quarter that led to a touchdown and also scored on a 38-yard touchdown reception, but he was a non-factor in the second half of the game.

The Cowboys lost on the road by a score of 21–26.

With leading wide receiver Dez Bryant missing most of the season, Williams failed to show that he was ready to be a number one receiver, which was complicated by the fact that he played with four different starting quarterbacks with varying degrees of knowledge of the team's offense.

Williams had a career-game statistically in the regular-season finale against the Washington Redskins, making eight receptions for 173 yards in a 34–23 loss with Kellen Moore as the starting quarterback.

Williams had only two games where he registered over 80 receiving yards and finished the season with 52 receptions for 840 yards and three touchdowns in 16 games and 13 starts.

During the season-opener against the New York Giants, Williams caught the ball near the end of the game but did not run out of bounds, allowing the Giants to win 20–19.

He finished the game with three receptions for 34 yards.

Three weeks later, Williams caught four passes for 44 yards and his first touchdown of the season against the San Francisco 49ers in a 24–17 road victory.

In the regular-season finale against the Philadelphia Eagles, Williams caught a three-yard touchdown in what would prove to be the final play of Tony Romo's career.

Williams finished the 27–13 road loss with three receptions for 33 yards and the aforementioned touchdown.

Williams finished the season with 44 receptions for 594 yards and four touchdowns in 16 games and starts.

In the divisional round against the Green Bay Packers, Williams caught four passes for 68 yards as the Cowboys narrowly lost 31–34.

On March 10, 2017, Williams signed a four-year, $17 million contract extension with the Cowboys.

During a Week 9 28–17 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, Williams had his best game of the season, catching nine passes for 141 yards.

Williams finished the season with a career-high 53 receptions for 568 yards in 16 games and 14 starts.

Williams was limited during training camp while recovering from offseason foot surgery.