HOUSTON — On another lost afternoon in his fall without football, Trent Williams stands in the gym he owns with teammate Adrian Peterson and their trainer James Cooper, doing what he has done a lot these last several months: talking about fighting. He wears a black Windbreaker jacket and is surrounded by three of the professional boxers he manages. An empty ring is behind him.
The boxers, two men and one woman, stand in a half circle and seem almost to talk at once about the training they've done, the fights they've watched and the dreams they have.