{"id":221383,"date":"2025-07-20T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/221383\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:38:14","slug":"kristian-williams-auditions-as-backup-defensive-lineman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/221383\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristian Williams auditions as backup defensive lineman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos Wire<\/a>‘s 90-man offseason roster<\/a> series continues today with a look at rookie defensive tackle Kristian Williams, No. 75.<\/p>\n

Before the Broncos<\/a>: Williams (6-2, 295 pounds) played six years of college football (2019-24). Williams spent three years at Oregon (2019-21), followed by three more seasons (2022-24) at Missouri. In his final three years with the Tigers<\/a>, Williams totaled 80 tackles (11 behind the line), four forced fumbles, four pass breakups and one fumble recovery. He was a team captain in his final season.<\/p>\n

Broncos tenure: Williams was inked as an undrafted free agent as part of the Denver Broncos<\/a>‘ initial wave of signings after the 2025 NFL draft. Williams will make his Bronco debut during preseason next month.<\/p>\n

Chances to make the 53-man roster: Long shot. Williams is auditioning for a backup as the Broncos have starters entrenched with Zach Allen, D.J. Jones and John Franklin-Myers, plus notable backup Malcolm Roach and third-round draft pick Sai’vion Jones. If Williams is going to stick around in 2025, it would likely have to be on the practice squad.<\/p>\n

Related: These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos Wire‘s 90-man offseason roster series continues today with a look at rookie defensive tackle Kristian Williams, No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[857,247,265,232,22476,3899,231,258,2426,11865,7,24697,20842,4465,2318,1702,6267,3539,1684,6186,248,267,88,6,35196,683,1381,245,537,530,10525,9,266,790,8968,1626],"class_list":{"0":"post-221383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-allen","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-broncos","12":"tag-d-j","13":"tag-d-j-jones","14":"tag-denver","15":"tag-denver-broncos","16":"tag-denverbroncos","17":"tag-ducks","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-franklin-myers","20":"tag-hub","21":"tag-john","22":"tag-john-franklin-myers","23":"tag-jones","24":"tag-malcolm","25":"tag-malcolm-roach","26":"tag-missouri","27":"tag-missouri-tigers-football","28":"tag-national","29":"tag-national-sports","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-nfl","32":"tag-nfl-hub","33":"tag-oregon","34":"tag-oregon-ducks-football","35":"tag-overall","36":"tag-overall-positive","37":"tag-positive","38":"tag-roach","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-news","41":"tag-tigers","42":"tag-zach","43":"tag-zach-allen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114884189312764127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}