Former Alabama linebacker Tim Williams and former UAB defensive end Stacy Keely finished the 2019 seasons on NFL practice squads and will enter 2020 without changing teams.

On Tuesday, the Green Bay Packers announced that Williams had signed a reserve/future contract and the Minnesota Vikings announced the same news about Keely.

A player signed to a reserve/future contract can be added to an NFL team's roster when it expands from 53 to 90 players for the offseason on the first day of the NFL's 2020 business year on March 18. The newly signed players become eligible to participate in offseason workouts, minicamps and OTAs as team members. Only players who aren't on NFL active rosters can sign reserve/future contracts.

Undrafted in April, Keely got an invitation to try out at the Vikings' rookie minicamp in May and was offered a contract based on his performance there. While he was released at the end of the preseason when Minnesota reduced its roster to meet the regular-season limit, Keely rejoined the Vikings as a member of the practice squad and spent the season with the team in that capacity.

Williams spent 10 weeks on Green Bay's practice squad in 2019.

After joining the Baltimore Ravens as a third-round draft choice from Alabama in 2017, Williams played in 19 of 36 regular-season games over the next two seasons, limited by a thigh injury in 2017 and an ankle injury in 2018.

Williams played 75 defensive snaps in the first four games of the 2019 season with the Ravens before he was released.

Williams joined Green Bay on Oct. 2 as a waiver claim.

In his five games on the Packers' active roster, Williams appeared in one, getting on the field for two special-teams plays against the Detroit Lions on Oct. 14.

Green Bay released Williams Nov. 5 to open a spot on the active roster for safety Ibraheim Campbell, who had been on the physically unable to perform list since Sept. 3. Campbell returned after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament late in the 2018 season.

Williams joined Green Bay's practice squad two days later.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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