will return to play for the Panthers in 2017 after he was granted a sixth season of eligibility by the NCAA. He will be the first sixth-year player for Georgia State football.
Williams missed the entire 2013 season and then all but three games of 2014 with a back injury that required surgery.
The veteran defensive back has two career interceptions, 11 pass breakups and 101 tackles. As a starting safety in 2016, he was fifth on the team with 61 tackles and a key part of a GSU secondary that finished seventh in the FBS in pass efficiency defense and eighth in passing yards allowed (173.