SI names Mario Williams 2nd team All-American

OU signee named to elite high school All-American list

John E. Hoover | Dec 22, 2020

Oklahoma signee Mario Williams was named second-team All-American on Tuesday by Sports Illustrated’s SI All-American.

NSD card-MWilliams — OU football / SoonerSports.com

Williams is a member of the SI99 and is the publication’s No. 1 high school slot receiver in the country.

As a senior, Williams caught 40 passes for 743 yards and eight touchdowns in nine games during the 2020 season for Plant City, High School in Tampa.

He’s one of four wide receivers signed by the Sooners during last week’s early signing period, joining Jalil Farooq, Billy Bowman and Cody Jackson.

WILLIAMS’ OU PAGE

In his career at Plant City, Williams caught 160 passes for 3,191 yards and 41 touchdowns. He also scored on a 41-yard interception return and averaged 47 yards on kickoff returns.

During his sophomore season, Williams set career-highs with 51 catches for 950 yards and 14 touchdowns.

SI ALL-AMERICAN 2nd TEAM OFFENSE

To get the latest OU posts as they happen, join the SI Sooners Community by clicking “Follow” at the top right corner of the page (mobile users can click the notifications bell icon), and follow SI Sooners on Twitter @All_Sooners.

Published Dec 22, 2020

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.