Walter Camp Foundation, and the Sporting News 1983 Second-team All-Big Ten by the AP and UPI 1984 First-team All-Big Ten by the AP and UPI 1985 First-team All-Big Ten by the AP and UPI 1984 Illinois Team MVP 1985 Illinois Team MVP Illinois records As of 2005 Illinois Football Media Guide Most receptions, one game: 16, vs Purdue, October 12, 1985 Most receptions, season: 101, 1984 Most receptions, career: 262 Most receiving yards, season: 1278, 1984 Most receiving yards, career: 3392 Most touchdown receptions, season: 10, 1985 Most touchdown receptions, career: 24 Most 100-receiving yard games, season: 6, 1984 & 1985 (shared with Brandon Lloyd) Most 100-receiving yard games, career: 16 Most receptions, bowl game: 10, vs UCLA, 1984 Rose Bowl NCAA Division I all-time rankings As of 2005 NCAA Division I Football Record Book Career receptions per game: 10th, 7.4 Season receptions per game: 21st, 9.2, 1984 Career receptions: 21st, 245 Season receptions: 24th, 101, 1984 Note: the NCAA does not recognize postseason statistics prior to 2002 in the official records. Illinois statistics Including bowl games National Football League Williams was taken in the third round of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, with the 82nd overall selection. He has the rare distinction of being a 3rd round pick who was cut before the season started. Williams would play two seasons in the National Football League, but would never be able to duplicate his collegiate success in the NFL. Williams played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1986 and the Los Angeles Raiders in 1987, and would finish his NFL career with 10 catches for 195 yards. Canadian Football League Williams played seven seasons in the Canadian Football League. He played for the BC Lions in 1988 and 1989, the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1990, the Edmonton Eskimos in 1991, the Toronto Argonauts in 1991 and 1992 and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1993 to 1995. He won the CFL's Outstanding Player Award in 1988, and played in the classic 76th Grey Cup game in 1988, scoring one touchdown. He won a Grey Cup title for the Toronto Argonauts in 1991. Williams was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2019. References External links 1963 births Living people All-American college football players American football wide receivers American players of Canadian football BC Lions players Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Player Award winners Canadian football wide