Ishaq Williams wasn’t sure he’d ever get another chance.
“At the beginning of the situation, I thought I might be done,” he said.
For good reason. Williams was suspended indefinitely by the Notre Dame football team before the 2014 season after an academic dishonesty investigation. He had to spend two years just watching and waiting. The Brooklyn product who came through Lincoln High in Coney Island hasn’t even played in a game since 2013, unless you count the Gridiron Showcase in Texas this past January. At one point his weight ballooned to almost 300 pounds due to inactivity and depression.