After his redshirt-freshman season in 2013, Avery Williams was already getting attention in the 2014 NFL Draft.
It just wasn’t the kind he wanted.
ESPN’s broadcast of the draft kept showing a play from Temple’s game against Central Florida on Nov. 16, 2013. The Knights’ quarterback Blake Bortles, the third overall pick in the 2014 draft, avoided pressure from the Owls’ defense to throw a 30-yard pass to a receiver who made a diving one-handed catch in the end zone to help avoid an upset by the Owls.
Williams had a chance to make a sack on the highlight-reel play, but pulled up short.