KNOXVILLE – Owen Williams may be the quietest player on Tennessee’s football team.
At least that’s how defensive line coach Steve Stripling describes the 6-foot, 297-pound defensive tackle.
Williams was pretty noisy when the Volunteers beat South Carolina on Saturday, though, as the second-year senior made six tackles and made three of those stops for losses.
That prompted him to earn the nod as Tennessee’s defensive player of the week.
“He had been doing so well and kind of hit the wall, so I was after him pretty good,” Stripling said early Monday afternoon after speaking at the Knoxville Quarterback Club’s weekly luncheon. “And he answered that challenge and I think played maybe one of his better games.