The recent incident involving Cowboys wide receiver Terrance Williams continues to get more and more bizarre as the story unfolds. First, Williams was arrested this past Saturday and charged with public intoxication and leaving the scene of an accident. What’s undisputed is that Williams’ Lamborghini crashed and he was detained while riding an electric scooter near the scene.
Williams then released a statement the day after accepting responsibility for the accident, saying that a car slammed on its brakes in front of him and he swerved to avoid it, but denied he was intoxicated. A wrinkle was thrown into the case when police released a video this morning of Williams the night of the accident contradicting his initial public account. Williams is shown telling officers that it wasn’t him who was driving the car that night, and that it was actually his friend and fellow wide receiver Kendall Wright of the Vikings.
The officers didn’t buy Williams’ claim that he wasn’t even in the car that night, as his phone was inside the vehicle. They arrested him, but the details about Wright’s alleged involvement stayed under wraps until today.
Williams’ lawyer then clarified earlier today once the video blew up online that Wright was not involved after all (Twitter link via Dallas Morning News’ Brandon George). Vikings general manager Rick Spielman then followed up and said the Vikings were standing by Wright and that Wright and his agent both assured him there was no truth to Williams’ accusation (Twitter link via ESPN’s Courtney Cronin).
Williams was already in a good amount of trouble, but his puzzling and now apparently false explanation that it was Wright who crashed his car could make matters even worse. He could be looking at a possible suspension from the league.
Working as the Cowboys’ number two receiver the past few years, Williams was theoretically in line for an increased workload after the release of Dez Bryant. The Cowboys signed Allen Hurns in free agency, but Williams was thought to have the inside track at being the team’s number one receiving option. It’s unclear if this arrest or possible suspension will change the Cowboys’ plans.
Last season, Williams caught 53 passes for 568 yards. He caught zero touchdowns for the first time in his career. Whatever happens, it’s a headache that the Cowboys absolutely don’t need in the midst of an already tumultuous offseason.
I’m so tired of the Cowboys getting in trouble every offseason, and Jerry Jones defending them almost blindly. Last year, a strong argument could be made, that the Cowboys missed the playoffs due to players suspensions.
Williams had a massive door open for him when Dez was released. This back and forth on what happened that night borders on comical. One only has to look at his mugshot to see he was intoxicated.
So… we cut the wrong guy?
The Cowboys did alright without Zeke. They fell apart with the loss of Lee.
Hopefully he gets suspended and they can cut him free of charge because he’s not good at anything but blocking.. waste of cap and it’s been obvious he’s immature. The dude idolized Dez and has always seemed off. He had a run through free agency and no one wanted him so he came back to Dallas and a below market value contract and even that was to much for him.. time to move on, he ain’t nothing
It’s Johnny 2.0
Good riddance he never stepped it up!
Nice guy throwing his homie under the bus like that…character guy…