It never worked out for wide receiver Mike Williams with the New York Jets, and now, the former first-round pick is headed to retirement one year after his failed stint with Gang Green.
According to multiple reports, Williams informed the Los Angeles Charges he was hanging up his cleats Thursday. Williams, 30, signed with the Chargers this offseason but started training camp on the physically unable to perform list.
Williams signed a one-year, $10 million deal with the Jets last offseason but became an odd man out when the team traded for Davante Adams.
In nine games with the Jets, Williams had just 12 catches for 166 yards and zero touchdowns. He was then traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 2025 fifth-round draft pick.
Williams entered the league as the No. 7 overall pick in the 2017 draft after starring and winning a national championship at Clemson. He spent his first seven seasons with the Los Angeles Charges, the team that drafted him, and finished with a pair of 1,000-yard seasons in 2019 and 2021.
Injuries marred his later years, however, and a career restart with the Jets following an ACL tear never came to fruition.
(NJ Advance Media’s Bridget Hyland contributed to this report.)
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