CLEMSON, S.C. -- For Clemson's elite wide receivers, the path is as standard as the routes they run. They dazzle as true freshmen, amass numbers and highlights as sophomores and juniors, and then break for the NFL.
They are celebrated in the program's elite receiver lineage, but their stories, unlike most passes thrown their way, are incomplete. No one knows how things would have ended in a Tiger uniform.
Until the early afternoon of Sept. 5, Mike Williams was on the same track.
"I wanted to come out, have a good season and then take my game to the NFL," he said.