Two years after leaving USC football, CJ Williams is gone return to transfer portal once again. A four-star receiver in the class of 2022, Williams was one of Lincoln Riley’s first big recruiting wins upon his arrival in Los Angeles. After a freshman season in which he caught just four passes for 34 yards, Williams opted to enter the transfer portal.
Williams landed at Wisconsin, where he spent the last two seasons. In two years with the Badgers, he caught 31 passes for 396 yards and two touchdowns. With his team’s season now over, Williams recently announced that he would be entering the transfer portal for a second time.
Last September, Williams returned to the Coliseum with Wisconsin. He caught a pass for 15 yards against the Trojan horses in a 38-21 loss. Now, Williams is back in the transfer portal. With one year of eligibility remaining, he will look to find a landing spot that will allow him to finally show why he was such a highly touted recruit coming out of high school three years ago.
The CJ Williams story raises an important point: Although many highly rated football players have left USC, what’s arguably worse is that most of those players never really played like football players. elite when the Trojans and Lincoln Riley had them.
Either these players are not evaluated well when USC is considering which players to add, or the players are not coached well enough once they enter the program. In Williams’ case, his lack of production at Wisconsin suggests it was more of an evaluation issue than a developmental issue, but regardless, USC can’t take of deficient decisions which lead to eliminations.
This article was originally published on Trojans Wire: USC player problem isn’t limited to the transfer portal
