'09 VA RB De'Antwan Williams (Official Offer)

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'09 VA RB De'Antwan Williams



Running back
Woodbridge (VA) Woodbridge Senior

Ht: 5-foot-7
Wt: 205 lbs
Forty: 4.5 secs
Vertical: 31 inches
Shuttle: 4.5 secs
Class: 2009 (High School)

Potomac News Online | Colleges wasting no time in making offers

Williams has received offers from Boston College, Rutgers and Virginia, King said. The Cavaliers, who have recruited Williams the heaviest, offered him first.

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5/11

From the Alabama site...talks about why Alabama is his current leader and compares his game to Maurice Jones-Drew. Illinois offered last week and he says he is interested in the Illini.

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5/30

by Mike Farrell...Offers from Pitt and Illinois. Talks about Illinois. Talks about what he's looking for in a school.

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The 'Rocket' Is Set for Liftoff - Josh Barr's Recruiting Insider

De'Antwan Williams, a 5-foot-8, 200-pound running back at Woodbridge High, is nicknamed "Rocket." He rushed for 2,048 yards and 26 touchdowns as a junior last fall, his third consecutive 1,000-yard season. He has scholarship offers from Maryland, Virginia, Rutgers, Boston College, West Virginia, Liberty and his current favorite, Alabama.

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7/1

Recruiting sites rank the 5-foot-7, 202-pound Williams as one of the top 10 players in Virginia for the class of 2009. Nationally, Rivals.com lists Williams as the No. 120 player overall for 2009, the No. 1 best inside runner and the No. 12 overall running back.

College interest, meanwhile, continues to come in. Williams holds 14 scholarship offers from Alabama, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Maryland, Boston College, Rutgers, West Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Marshall, Liberty and James Madison.

Williams has kept a level head about all the attention he's received as he tries and figures out what school offers him the best opportunity to play as soon as possible, as well as what they offer academically.

But it's been an interesting ride so far.

The Ricky Williams' angle was repeated to Williams by Dave Wannstedt, the University of Pittsburgh head coach who also coached Ricky Williams in Miami.

There was also the day when Williams decided to check his MySpace page after a long hiatus and discovered that University of South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier had left a message on Williams' site, asking if Williams had any interest in the Gamecocks. If he did, Spurrier left a phone number for Williams to call him, which Williams followed up on.

Keith King, Williams' head coach at Woodbridge, has counseled his young star to look at a number of factors in determining a school.

"It needs to fit his needs," King said. "He doesn't need to get caught up in the prestige."

King has emphasized to Williams that he get to know not just the recruiter, but the school's running backs coach as well.

In some cases, Williams' main recruiter has been both like in the case of Virginia's Anthony Poindexter or West Virginia's Chris Beatty.

"This is someone you are going to be around for four years," King said.

Williams is not leaning toward one school yet over another.

Virginia was the first school to offer Williams back in the winter, while Maryland is the school Williams has visited the most (seven times).

Williams plans to take unofficial visits to West Virginia this weekend and Boston College and Alabama next month. The Alabama visit is scheduled for the weekend of July 20th. The Crimson Tide will be hosting a camp that weekend, but Williams said he is only going to see the school and will not participate in the camp.

King would like to see Williams make a decision before the season starts to avoid any distractions and Williams agrees with that. But if it takes longer than that, Williams is prepared to hold off.

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8/1

Planning a visit to WVU soon. Will set up official visits later in August.

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A preseason list, for a change - Roanoke.com

14. De’Antwan Williams, 5-7, 202 RB, Woodbridge – Don’t let the size fool you; academics may be a bigger issue. Likes Maryland.

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Woodbridge senior back thrives with heavy workload -- dailypress.com

He took an unofficial visit to Maryland this weekend to see the Terrapins beat California. He might soon take an official visit to Alabama.

King said Virginia Tech hasn't offered Williams yet because he still has some work to do to get academically qualified. With probably four to seven scholarships left to offer, Tech has to be more picky than usual and can't take as many chances with potential non-qualifiers who might have to attend prep school.

UVa and Maryland may have good shots at landing Williams. He has expressed an interest in going to an in-state school, a school close to home or a Southern school.

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Update on De'Antwan Williams - Josh Barr's Recruiting Insider

Enlow said the top colleges on Williams's list are now Alabama, West Virginia, Maryland and Rutgers -- which entered the picture only recently but has come on strong. Rivals.com rates Williams as the No. 13 overall running back prospect in the Class of 2009; they also list him as the top "inside runner" in the country (Rivals likens Williams to Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew).

The 5-foot-9, 197-pound Williams plans to take official visits within the next month to Alabama and West Virginia. Enlow said Williams would like to take more official visits if time in his schedule permits.

Williams also has serious interest in Virginia, Pittsburgh, Clemson, Marshall and Illinois. All told, he has 22 NCAA Division I-A offers. Enlow said he expects Williams to make a decision sometime in December.

Despite defenses stacking the line against him, Williams has rushed for 1,307 yards and 18 touchdowns in six games this season, including a career-high 318 yards a little over a week ago against Potomac (Va.).

For his career, Williams has 6,039 yards and 72 touchdowns, leaving him 1,497 yards shy of the Virginia High School League career rushing record -- an attainable number if the seventh-ranked Vikings (6-0, 1-0) make a deep postseason run.