{"id":733156,"date":"2026-06-29T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733156\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:26:11","slug":"jameson-williams-has-worked-to-go-from-good-to-truly-elite-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733156\/","title":{"rendered":"Jameson Williams has worked to go from “good to truly elite” this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams played every game in a season for the first time in 2025 and he posted career highs with 65 catches and 1,117 yards over the course of the campaign. <\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t enough to get the Lions back into the playoffs, but it did show the kind of growth that the team wanted to see after Williams missed time due to injuries and suspensions in his first two seasons. Wide receivers coach Scottie Montgomery said this month that the team has continued to see Williams growing this offseason in terms of \u201chis ability to be vocal and ask questions\u201d in order to fully understand \u201chow we go attack\u201d opposing defenses. <\/p>\n

As a result, Montgomery believes Williams is capable of taking another leap in his fifth season. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we\u2019ve really worked hard<\/a> this offseason, even just on the phone talking about the detail that it takes to go from being good to truly elite in our game. And then the things from a mentality standpoint, the way that we go about when we\u2019re working, like not even just the start of a drill, but also just the finish,\u201d Montgomery said, via Kory Woods of MLive.com. \u201cEverything that we do, his detail, his eyes, his catch points, his checkpoints, everything that we\u2019re doing now, we did March, April, man, it showed up. We\u2019re really excited about where he is right now. This is definitely, by far, been his best offseason, his best chance to grow as a player since we\u2019ve been here for a number of reasons, but he\u2019s done a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prospect of Williams finding a higher gear while playing alongside the likes of Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St. Brown is one that should worry the teams on the Lions\u2019 schedule this fall. If Detroit can\u2019t make similar gains on defense, however, the team\u2019s fortunes may not wind up being terribly different in 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams played every game in a season for the first time in 2025 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-733156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}