Five star recruits are prizes for any football or basketball program. There are currently only 27 5-star prospects per the Rivals 2020 rankings in football and just 25 for basketball. Caleb Swanigan was Purdue basketball’s lone 5-star commit of the Rivals era, and in 2005 Joe Tiller landed football’s lone 5-star prospect.
Williams’ time in West Lafayette was brief, and ended in tragedy. After seeing the field in the first half of the 2005 season as Kyle “Bonecrusher” Williams injuries, alcohol, and drugs ended his playing time after week 7 against Wisconsin. then in late November he was arrested after brutally assaulting two women and stalking a third in one night.