Notre Dame’s reliance on tight end Michael Mayer seemed a perfect opportunity for Kourt Williams to show his strengths at the start of the 2022 season. Then the Buckeye captain didn’t take a single defensive snap in the season opener.
Perhaps Jim Knowles saw something others didn’t when scouting the matchup. But Williams’ lack of a role on the Buckeye defense hasn’t been specific to any single game since then.
The third-year safety and No. 166 prospect in the 2020 class, whose intangibles have drawn heaps of praise from Ohio State coaches and teammates since arriving on campus, has played just 42 snaps over the first five games.