COLUMBIA, Mo. — Kristian Williams doesn’t dress to look cool. And he certainly doesn’t dress to feel cool, temperature-ly speaking.
The Missouri defensive tackle dresses practically, which is to say he dresses for practice — even when he doesn’t need to.
Like wearing shoulder pads to team meetings.
“It’s just a matter of staying ready so you don’t have to get ready,” Williams told the Post-Dispatch, as gearing up to dissect film or schemes is an obvious new fashion trend.
“It saves you time, too,” Williams continued, “Whenever you have your pads on in meetings and right after meetings and stuff of that nature, you can go down to the field and just talk to yourself, listen to yourself — positive self-talk, just to get in that mode before you go into practice.