Heritage Long Snapper Jay Williams Headed to Play For the Crimson Tide

Ringgold, GA-(WDEF-TV) Alabama’s football season came to an end at the Rose Bowl last Saturday.

But now, a new group of players are coming to Tuscaloosa in the hopes of winning a national title, including Heritage High School’s long snapper Jay Williams.

Brian Armstrong talks with the new Crimson Tide commit.

Heritage High Schooler Jay Williams is a preferred walk on for Alabama football as a long snapper.

Said Williams:”We were gonna play central high school back here. I came home from a senior dinner And I get a phone call from coach Hutzler special teams coach Alabama, and I thought it was a well checked like he usually does He’s like hey, how’s it going? How’s family stuff like that? He did ask those questions, and I was talking like normal and then out of the blue. He was like Yes, I want to offer you prefer walk on to the University of Alabama, Alabama and it caught me, caught me off guard. So kind of went to the went to the office room in my house and just kind of pacing around the room.

Williams dad  got him interested in long snapping.

Said Williams:”I was the only guy that knew how to shotgun snap at the time. So he said, all right, let’s try this for every year. You’re how old. We’ll back up a yard. So it went from 10, 11, 12, so on and so forth till I got to 15. And then he introduced me to camps and started with Chris Rubio, with Rubio long snapping, move my way onto long snapping, all that. And I fell in love with it.”

Most people don’t hear his name and that’s the way he wants it as a long snapper.

Said Williams:”Being perfect all the time is the job of a long snapper. You really don’t, you really don’t want to be known as a snapper, right? If you do your job, then no one bats an eye. You mess up, then you’re the number one guy on their hit list.”

For Williams, he didn’t want to go anywhere but Alabama.

Said Williams:”I’ve been a fan since I was born, really. I took my first steps in Brian Denny Stadium, so, and they really, they really have what it takes to help me, not only as a player, but as a student.”