Former defensive back at Northwestern. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′0″ · 203 lb · The Plains, OH
The story
Former defensive back at Northwestern. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearTrae Williams
He has spent four seasons in the Northwestern secondary. The receipt: 5 tackles against Massachusetts — Week 12, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Northwestern, 102 tackles — drafted at #159 overall by Jacksonville.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Pat Fitzgerald.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
JacksonvilleEntering 19th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Pat Fitzgerald — 29-23 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (88th percentile). Concern: tackles for loss (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Road2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Braun
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 1 game in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Northwestern | 18 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Northwestern | 26 | 12 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Northwestern | 16 | 13 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Northwestern | 42 | 33 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 7 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 102 | 74 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 15 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 14 · 2019
W 29–10
at Illinois
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-17@ Stanford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 30-14vs UNLV | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-20vs Iowa | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-24vs Purdue | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 45-6vs Massachusetts | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 22-38vs Minnesota | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 29-10@ Illinois | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 18 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 5 |
Player DNA