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On team of stars, journeyman DT Nick Williams comes out of nowhere to lead Chicago Bears in sacks

The lights grow dimmer each day when you drift into your late 20s and any objective onlooker would say this football dream just isn’t working out. Friends, family and maybe even your inner voice start asking a seemingly obvious question.

“You kinda have that, ‘Are you gonna go get a regular job, or what?’” Nick Williams said.

He can’t remember any specific person asking it and he said he never asked himself, but he sensed it hovering. The Dolphins cut him at the end of the 2017 preseason and he went home to Alabama to do some soul searching.