Life outside football hardly existed for Maxx Williams over the past year. The former Gophers tight end was making a seamless transition from collegiate athlete to NFL prospect, without a break until the week before the NFL draft.
So the Waconia native is now on a weeklong vacation in Aruba. It’s a brief moment for Williams to unwind away from football.
“My life is changing pretty drastically and pretty quickly when I get back,” Williams said. “This is the last part of my life where I can just relax and really have no worries.”
The draft, which begins Thursday night in Chicago, will be a hectic process that will determine the team for which Williams, widely regarded as the top tight end prospect in the draft, will play.