While North Carolina’s Javonte Williams is by no means a completely overlooked prospect – he’s widely projected to be taken in the second round and is generally considered the third-best running back in the class – he is still not getting nearly enough love in the draft community as he should be.
I am not here to argue that Williams is the best running back prospect in the 2021 class – Najee Harris and Travis Etienne undoubtedly deserve to battle it out for that claim – I am here to explain why Williams is a lot closer to those two players than you may think, and why he has an outside shot of having the best NFL career of any running back in this class.