{"id":280087,"date":"2025-08-11T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:51:13","slug":"former-byu-rb-jamaal-williams-works-out-with-bears-dolphins-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280087\/","title":{"rendered":"Former BYU RB Jamaal Williams works out with Bears, Dolphins \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For the first time in his career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2024\/1\/7\/24029492\/new-orleans-saints-controversial-touchdown-arthur-smith-jameis-winston-jamaal-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2024\/1\/7\/24029492\/new-orleans-saints-controversial-touchdown-arthur-smith-jameis-winston-jamaal-williams\/\">Jamaal Williams<\/a> has been absent from NFL training camp \u2014 though that may not last for much longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The BYU product and ninth-year running back has garnered interest from a pair of teams over the past few days, according to ESPN insider Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams reportedly worked out with the Chicago Bears on Saturday and is now working out with the Miami Dolphins on Monday, per Schefter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754934672_74_UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Special Collector&#8217;s Issue: &#8220;1984: The Year BYU was Second to None&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football&#8217;s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dolphins are working out free-agent running back Jamaal Williams today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1954927020728578238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both Chicago and Miami already have featured backs set in stone, so Williams\u2019 potential supporting role with either team would likely entail short yardage and goal-line situations similar to how he was used by the New Orleans Saints over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Should Williams be signed in the coming days, he would join a group of 18 other fellow former Cougars in NFL training camps. If he did in fact sign with Miami, he would be teammates with former BYU quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2025\/08\/10\/zach-wilson-preseason-debut-miami-dolphins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2025\/08\/10\/zach-wilson-preseason-debut-miami-dolphins\/\">Zach Wilson<\/a>, who is currently the Dolphins\u2019 QB2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In eight seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions and New Orleans Saints, Williams has rushed for 4,122 yards with 32 touchdowns, along with racking up 1,310 yards through the air with eight additional receiving scores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His best campaign came with the Lions in 2022, where he ran for 1,066 yards \u2014 the most ever for a former BYU player in a single season \u2014 and led the NFL with 17 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A fourth-round draft selection in 2017, Williams left BYU after four seasons as the school\u2019s all-time leading rusher with 3,901 yards, running for 1,375 yards and 12 touchdowns as a senior in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50;background-color:#F3F1F0;cursor:pointer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RTQMIIMHSFR56EW5OAKIRLBYVY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>BYU running back Jamaal Williams scores a touchdown against the Toledo Rockets at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in his career, Jamaal Williams has been absent from NFL training camp \u2014 though&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,7,3309,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-280087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-news-feed-local","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115011406639717766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280087","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=280087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}