Nine years ago, as she lay on her death bed about to succumb to the breast cancer she’d been battling for five years, Marquischa Henderson Williams delivered a powerful and prophetic message to her son, then a 12-year-old boy.
“Quinnen, you’re going to be the one who takes care of everybody,’’ she told the second of her four children. “You’re going to be the one to make sure everybody is straight. I need you to do that.’’
Nine years later — specifically on Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn., where Quinnen Williams walked onto a stage, hugged NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and posed for a grip-and-grin photo while holding up a Jets jersey after he was drafted by the team with the third-overall pick — her son was making good on his mom’s last request.