{"id":595308,"date":"2025-12-12T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/595308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:16:12","slug":"lions-wr-jameson-williams-given-nfl-honors-for-community-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/595308\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions WR Jameson Williams given NFL honors for community work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams was named the NFL Week 15 NFL Players Association Community MVP, the union announced on Friday. The recognition is given to a player each week who exemplifies making a positive impact in their hometown or team city. As this week\u2019s winner, Williams will receive a $10,000 donation to his foundation or charity of choice. Williams does have his own foundation\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesonwilliamsfoundation.org\/blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Jameson Williams Foundation<\/a>\u2014that strives to \u201cuplift and empower the youth and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Williams received the honors this week for providing 250 winter coats to students at <a href=\"https:\/\/dbgdetroit.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Boxing Gym Detroit<\/a>, which supports local children with programs to support mentorship and provide educational resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to be selected as the NFLPA Community MVP. I do things in the communities that I am connected to because it is important to me that young people are able to see they can make something of themselves with hard work too,\u201d Williams said in a statement via the NFLPA. \u201cIt also is important to me to help families that are less fortunate because you never know how much of a difference that one thing I do might help them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Williams regularly gives back to the local Detroit community, including annual drives to give food to families during the Thanksgiving season. A few weeks back, I asked Williams why it was so important to him to give back to families during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s always important to give back to the community. It\u2019s part of me. I just want to show my face and be a part of the culture. That\u2019s the main thing,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per the press release, Williams is now also eligible for the Alan Page Community Award, the NFLPA\u2019s \u201chighest honor.\u201d That winner will be announced around Super Bowl week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams was named the NFL Week 15 NFL Players Association Community MVP, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-595308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroit-lions-news","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115707732603906378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595308","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=595308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}