Marquise Williams received a number of phone calls over the weekend from fellow quarterbacks, encouraging him to pick his head up after a tough performance last Thursday in the loss to South Carolina. One of those calls came from his predecessor at Carolina, Bryn Renner. Another came from the Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning.
“He gave me a text and told me to give him a call, and I did,” Williams said. “He said ‘Just go out and play your game.’ I felt like it was over. It just felt like you just lost everything, but once I got that call it was just like, man, I’m back at it.