Brandon Williams is not the most well-known football player to come out of St. Louis. Sure, he was an all-state selection and Suburban South Conference defensive player of the year in high school.
But Rockwood Summit High in Fenton isn’t a football power. And then Williams left the area to attend a prep school in Cincinnati.
In college, he attended Division II Missouri Southern State.
Even after working his way into becoming a third-round draft pick by Baltimore in 2013 and starting status at nose tackle in the NFL, he wasn’t the first one you thought of in terms of area products.