By Brian Rosenthal / Huskers.com
Kieron Williams was in somewhat of a rush after Nebraska’s football practice on Tuesday, knowing he had an important phone call to return.
To his mother.
Williams had taken a picture of his newly-earned Blackshirt he’d discovered in his locker and sent it to Saulicia Williams-Mester. She immediately called.
"I couldn’t answer,” Williams said, “because I was about to go out to practice.”
Williams, a junior safety from Shreveport, Louisiana, became the 14th member of the Nebraska defense to earn the coveted Blackshirt, a proud tradition that dates to the 1960s and represents more than starting status, but also a brotherhood.