‘I Believe in Sam Williams!’ Cowboys Coach McCarthy on Troubled DE

“I believe in Sam Williams. I obviously did when we drafted him, and I do even more now.” - Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy

FRISCO - “I believe in Sam Williams,”Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said to open his Thursday press conference here inside The Star. “He needs to slow down. And he knows that.”

McCarthy isn’t trying to be cute or clever here. … unlike team owner Jerry Jones, who made a joke about Williams’ latest entanglement with the law, saying that Williams must be improving because he wasn’t driving near 100 MPH as he was during a previous incident.

The Cowboys insisted before selecting him in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft that they’d done their homework on the talented defensive end. But he is once again in trouble with the law here in Frisco.

Williams was arrested on Sunday on controlled substance and weapon charges.

Before that, he was accused (and later cleared) of a sexual-related misbehavior.

And as a rookie late in the 2022 NFL season, Williams missed a game after he was injured in a car crash. He told a handful of different stories about what occurred, but and he was cited for reckless driving in connection with that crash. ... and for a time there was a warrant out for his arrest (in order, the police later said, simply to "contact him.'')

The Ole Miss product Williams has talked of registering a 10-sack season as part of a Dallas rotation at defensive end, led by Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence, that figures to be among the best in the NFL. But now? This arrest will mean an investigation by the NFL, which at its discretion can lead to the suspension of Williams.

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