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2020 CB Nigel Williams commits to Northwestern

The season hasn’t started the way Pat Fitzgerald and co. would like, but Northwestern football’s 2020 recruiting class is continuing to fire on all cylinders.

With the addition of Nigel Williams, a one-time Wake Forest commit who also had offers from Virginia and UCLA, the Wildcats have their 16th recruit of the all-important class, bring ing their total overall 247Sports Composite Ranking to 30th, and eighth in the Big Ten.

Williams, listed at 6’1”, 180 pounds, is the third cornerback commit of the class, joining Garnett Hollis and Jaheem Joseph. According to 247, the three-star Richmond native has been clocked at a 4.