Jameson Williams has worked to go from "good to truly elite" this offseason
· Yahoo Sports
Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams played every game in a season for the first time in 2025 and he posted career highs with 65 catches and 1,117 yards over the course of the campaign.
That wasn't enough to get the Lions back into the playoffs, but it did show the kind of growth that the team wanted to see after Williams missed time due to injuries and suspensions in his first two seasons. Wide receivers coach Scottie Montgomery said this month that the team has continued to see Williams growing this offseason in terms of "his ability to be vocal and ask questions" in order to fully understand "how we go attack" opposing defenses.
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As a result, Montgomery believes Williams is capable of taking another leap in his fifth season.
“You know, we’ve really worked hard this offseason, even just on the phone talking about the detail that it takes to go from being good to truly elite in our game. And then the things from a mentality standpoint, the way that we go about when we’re working, like not even just the start of a drill, but also just the finish,” Montgomery said, via Kory Woods of MLive.com. "Everything that we do, his detail, his eyes, his catch points, his checkpoints, everything that we’re doing now, we did March, April, man, it showed up. We’re really excited about where he is right now. This is definitely, by far, been his best offseason, his best chance to grow as a player since we’ve been here for a number of reasons, but he’s done a good job.”
The prospect of Williams finding a higher gear while playing alongside the likes of Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown is one that should worry the teams on the Lions' schedule this fall. If Detroit can't make similar gains on defense, however, the team's fortunes may not wind up being terribly different in 2026.