Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Wake Forest
BJ Williams
DL • 6'4" • 273 lbs • Johnston, SC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
BJ Williams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.
Impact Production
33
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
37
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
46
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Wake Forest
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UConn
Player Story
BJ Williams built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Johnston, SC wearing No. 18, spending time with Wake Forest. The clearest part of BJ Williams' career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Wake Forest
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
BJ Williams, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest. BJ Williams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 40
- TFL
- 2.5
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
BJ Williams quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Wake Forest · DL
- Career Tackles
- 40
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 25 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
- Top game
- UConn
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Strom Thurmond · Wake Forest
- High school pipeline
- Strom Thurmond · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 18 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 3 tackles · DL 856th (top 80%) · ACC 513th (top 65%) · National 4,026th (top 65%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 3 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.4 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 7 | 11 | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16.1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 11 | 23 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 3 | - | 0 | 41.7 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 4 | 3 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 9.6 |
Related Context
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BJ Williams played DL for Wake Forest. Across 4 tracked seasons, BJ Williams recorded 40 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Wake Forest.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Wake Forest paired 6 primary output with 14.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 14.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UConn
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
14.2
Usage
4.5
Consistency
15.2
Best Game by takeover score
UConn
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. North Carolina A&T: 0. Virginia: 1.5. Ole Miss: 0. Louisiana: 0. NC State: 0. Clemson: 0. UConn: 1.5. California: 1. North Carolina: 1. Miami: 0. Duke: 1
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. North Carolina A&T: 1 by 4.2. Virginia: 3 by 27.5. Ole Miss: 4 by 16.7. Louisiana: 3 by 12.5. NC State: 1 by 4.2. Clemson: 1 by 4.2. UConn: 4 by 31.7. California: 2 by 18.3. North Carolina: 1 by 14.2. Miami: 1 by 4.2. Duke: 2 by 18.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.5 · Games = 3 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 8 · +0.1 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
UConn
Best efficiency game
31.7 vs UConn
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/30 | vs Duke | L 17-23 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/23 | @ Miami | L 14-42 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/17 | @ North Carolina | L 24-31 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/9 | vs California | L 36-46 | 2 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/19 | @ UConn | W 23-20 | 4 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/12 | vs Clemson | L 14-49 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/5 | @ NC State | W 34-30 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/28 | vs Louisiana | L 38-41 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/14 | vs Ole Miss | L 6-40 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/7 | vs Virginia | L 30-31 | 3 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 8/29 | vs North Carolina A&T | W 45-13 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
BJ Williams story
BJ Williams built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Johnston, SC wearing No. 18, spending time with Wake Forest. The clearest part of BJ Williams' career was his defensive production: 40 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 25 career games in the available record. That gives BJ Williams' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Wake Forest
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 2 | 9.4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 6 | 14.2 | 4.5 | 4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 1 | 5.6 | 1 | -5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ UConn
Week 8 · W 23-20
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5
Havoc Plays
77.2 takeover
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.2 takeover score.
#2
vs Virginia
Week 2 · L 30-31 · Conference game
1.5
Havoc Plays
71.1 takeover
Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.
#3
vs Vanderbilt
Week 2 · W 36-20
2
Havoc Plays
55.6 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 55.6 takeover score.
#4
vs California
Week 11 · L 36-46 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
47.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.5 takeover score.
#5
vs Duke
Week 14 · L 17-23 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
44.2 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
6 primary output · 14.2 efficiency · 4.5 usage
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#2
2022 Regular Season · Wake Forest
36.4
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Wake Forest
16.1
2 primary · 9.4 efficiency · 2 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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