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Position: | Wide receiver |
Personal information | |
Born: | Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. | August 10, 1945
Died: | June 19, 2024 Amelia Island, Florida, U.S. | (aged 78)
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Weight: | 207 lb (94 kg) |
Career information | |
High school: | Lincoln (Tacoma, Washington) |
College: | Washington |
NFL draft: | 1967 / round: 1 / pick: 16 |
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Stats at Pro Football Reference |
David Laverne Williams (August 10, 1945 – June 19, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for 10 years in the National Football League (NFL) and the World Football League (WFL). He was the first player signed by the Seattle Seahawks in 1975.
Williams was an All-American for the Washington Huskies in football and track, as a decathlete. He was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame in 2014.
Following his pro football career, Williams was an executive working in property management for more than four decades. He helped to establish a church on Kauai in 2001, which met in a tent until the North Shore Christian Church building was completed in 2014.