Preston Williams finally got his chance to work out for NFL scouts, and the results of the physical tests weren’t nearly as eye-popping as the highlight reel of the receiver’s lone season with CSU’s football program.

Williams, who has been projected to be selected anywhere from the second to seventh round in the upcoming NFL draft, ran the 40-yard dash in the 4.55-second range, leaped 9 feet, 8 inches in the standing broad jump and had a vertical leap of 31 ½ inches Wednesday at Colorado State University’s pro day.

His agent, Michael Swenson, said those were the kind of numbers the trainers Williams has been working with in Southern California were expecting the receiver to put up. But they were below the average when compared to those recorded by the 48 receivers, including CSU teammate Bisi Johnson, who participated in the NFL Scouting Combine last weekend in Indianapolis.

Williams, 6-foot-4 and 211 pounds, was allowed to attend the combine to meet with NFL teams but wasn’t permitted to perform the on-field tests because of a September 2017 arrest in Fort Collins on misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault that included a domestic violence enhancement. Williams ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge, for which he received a deferred sentence.

Swenson, concerned about NFL teams' perception of his client, handed each of the 40 or so scouts representing all 32 NFL teams and the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos a 40-page packet on his client, including the police reports, court documents and Williams’ explanation of what took place during an argument with his then-girlfriend that a friend of hers who was present to call police.

A subsequent charge of violating a restraining order for exchanging more than 200 texts with the victim was dropped as part of Williams' plea agreement, Larimer County court records show.

"I'm not that type of person," Williams said. "Everything is in the past that happened. It won't happen again."

Williams’ 40-yard dash, hand-timed by the scouts, would have been tied for the 24th-fastest among the 37 receivers who ran 40s at the scouting combine. Only two receivers at the combine had lower marks in the vertical leap and only two had shorter standing broad jumps.

Williams, who played two seasons at Tennessee before transferring to CSU, also ran the 3-cone drill, 20-yard shuttle and 60-yard shuttle Wednesday. His times for those tests were not shared with media observers by the scouts timing them.

“I think I did pretty good today,” Williams said afterward, giving himself an “A-plus” grade when asked to assess his performance.

What he did best was catch passes, hauling in all but one of the more than two dozen that were thrown to him by quarterback K.J. Carta-Samuels, who was also showing off his skills to NFL scouts at the school’s Indoor Practice Facility.

Carta-Samuels said Williams, one of the top four receivers in the country last fall with 96 catches for 1,345 yards and 14 touchdowns, is “a first-round talent, for sure. ... “He can jump out of the gym, he’s fast, and he makes insane plays.”

Swenson hopes NFL teams focus more on what Williams was able to do in actual games last fall than on the results of his on-field skills tests Wednesday. Williams has an interview scheduled soon with the Cleveland Browns and expects to meet individually with several other teams leading up to the April 25-27 NFL Draft.

He said he has no expectations of what round he’ll be selected in or which team might take him.

“Any team that will take a chance on me, I’ll be glad,” he said. “I’m going to give them my best effort.”

Johnson shines at combine

Johnson, 6-foot and 204 pounds, didn’t participate in the skills tests Wednesday, since he had done them all Saturday at the NFL Scouting Combine. He ran a 4.51-second 40, had a 38-inch vertical leap and standing broad jump of 10-4 in Indianapolis, while also putting up some of the top numbers there in the 3-cone drill (fifth of 24 participants at 6.88 seconds), 20-yard shuttle (10th of 28 at 4.16 seconds) and 60-yard shuttle (second of four at 11.46 seconds).

Top performers

Linebacker Josh Watson, the Rams’ leading tackler the past two seasons, had the top performances in the vertical leap and standing broad jump among the Rams’ 12 pro-day participants. Watson was one of three players to reach 36 ½ inches in the vertical leap, matching running back Izzy Matthews and safety Jordan Fogal, and topped the field in the standing broad jump with a leap of 10 feet, 10 inches.

Linebacker Tre Thomas was able to do the most repetitions of 225 pounds among the four Rams who participated in the bench press with 25.

Other participants

CSU’s other NFL hopefuls participating in the pro day were tackles Tyler Bjorklund, Ben Knox and T.J. Roundtree, cornerback V.J. Banks and kicker Wyatt Bryan.

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