Mike Williams ( wide receiver , born 1984 ) Michael Troy Williams ( born January 4 , 1984 ) is an American football wide receiver who last played for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League ( NFL ) . Williams played college football for the University of Southern California ( USC ) , and received All - American recognition . The Detroit Lions selected him in first round of the 2005 NFL Draft , and he has also played for the Oakland Raiders , Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks of the NFL . He is currently a free agent . Early years . Williams was born in Tampa , Florida . He attended Henry B . Plant High School in Tampa , and played both high school football and basketball for the Plant Panthers . As a senior , Williams had 38 receptions for 789 yards ( 20 . 8 average reception ) with twelve touchdowns . Williams ' honors included Tom Lemming All - American , Super Prep All - Dixie , PrepStar All - Southeast Region , " St . Petersburg Times " All - Suncoast second team , and " Tampa Tribune " All - Hillsborough County . During his junior year , Williams made the All - State Class 4A second team while making 35 receptions for 803 yards ( 22 . 9 avg . ) and 12 touchdown s . As a sophomore , Williams made 28 receptions for 631 yards ( 22 . 5 avg . ) . In basketball , he averaged 16 . 9 points , 8 . 3 rebounds and 4 . 6 assists as a senior in 2002 . As a junior in 2001 , Williams earned " Tampa Tribune " All - Hillsborough County first team honors , averaging 14 . 7 points , 10 . 7 rebounds and 5 . 3 assists while helping his team to the state semifinals . College career . Williams attended the University of Southern California , where he played for coach Pete Carroll ' s USC Trojans football team from 2003 to 2004 . Before attending USC , Williams was offered scholarships to Florida State University and the University of Florida , but neither school saw him as a wide receiver . Williams played split end wide receiver during most of his games for USC . Williams played in all 26 games during his freshman and sophomore years at USC , and started 15 of those games . He wore jersey No . 1 while on the football team . His freshman season , he had 81 receptions for 1 , 265 yards and 14 touchdowns . These statistics are all USC and Pacific - 10 Conference freshman records . Williams was named First - Team Freshman All - American choice by " The Sporting News " , Scripps / Football Writers , and Rivals . com . Selected as the Pac - 10 Freshman of the Year , named to the All - Pac - 10 second team , All - American honorable mention , " The Sporting News " Freshman All - Pac - 10 first team , and The Sporting News All - Pac - 10 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year . In his final season , as a sophomore , Williams started all 13 games at wide receiver , and led the Trojans in receiving yards and touchdowns which resulted in 95 catches leading to 1 , 314 yards and 16 touchdowns . Williams was a finalist for the 2003 Biletnikoff Award ( nation ’ s top receiver ) while finishing eighth in Heisman Trophy voting . He also earned first team All - American ( AP , ESPN . com , Football Writers , and SI . com among others ) honors . Williams also was a 2003 All - Pac - 10 First Team selection and CBS . Sportsline . com National Player of the Year . That year he also completed two pass attempts for 38 yards and one touchdown against Michigan in the Rose Bowl , and blocked a field goal . Professional career . NFL draft controversy . Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett was suspended by his school following his 2002 freshman year . After being unable to gain reinstatement with Ohio State , Clarett made the decision to declare for the NFL Draft . However , since Clarett was only of true sophomore eligibility , he had to legally challenge the NFL rule that a player must be three years removed from high school to be eligible for the NFL Draft . After a court proceeding , a federal judge ruled that the NFL could not legally bar Clarett from entering the 2004 NFL Draft . Williams , having completed his sophomore year and only two years removed from high school , made the decision to declare for the 2004 NFL Draft as well after hearing the federal judge ' s ruling . Williams hired an agent and moved forward presenting himself as a legitimate first round pick ( and most , if not all , NFL pundits and NFL personnel agreed that Williams was a first round choice ) . By declaring his intent to enter the draft , hiring an agent to represent his interests , and filing the NFL paperwork necessary to enter the draft , he made himself ineligible for NCAA reinstatement . Still prior to the 2004 NFL Draft , the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , overturned the Federal Judge ' s decision allowing Clarett to enter the Draft . Additionally , the United States Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal . Clarett and Williams were ineligible for the 2004 NFL Draft . As Williams was ineligible for NCAA reinstatement , he was required to sit the entire 2004 football season and was not allowed to practice with USC as well . Detroit Lions . Despite sitting out an entire season , Williams was selected 10th overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions , the third WR drafted in the first round in as many years by the Lions . Williams selected jersey # 88 , which had been retired in honor of Hall of Fame tight end Charlie Sanders . As a rookie in 2005 , Williams , appeared in 14 games with four starts . Williams recorded his first touchdown catch in his NFL debut , a 3 - yard pass from quarterback Joey Harrington , in the season opener against Green Bay . Williams made his first career start against the Ravens and had 1 reception for 7 yards . Williams had a career - long , 49 - yard reception in Cleveland . He finished that game with 5 receptions for 95 yards . Williams then again started in Minnesota and had 4 receptions for 43 yards . Three - of - four receptions were for first downs . Williams was then inactive for the Lions game in Dallas due to an injured ankle . Williams had a season - high 6 receptions for 84 yards against Atlanta and had a 21 - yard reception for a first down in New Orleans on the Lions opening drive . He finished his rookie season with 29 receptions for 350 yards and 1 touchdown . In 2006 , Williams was on the inactive list for both of the Lions ' first two games . He played in just eight games in the 2006 season , and made eight catches for 99 yards and one touchdown . During the Lions ' Week 15 loss at Green Bay , Williams led the Lions in receiving yards after catching three passes for 42 yards . Williams caught two more passes in a Week 16 loss to Chicago , but posted several drops as well , and was unable to secure a potential game - winning touchdown pass thrown by Jon Kitna as time expired . During the Lions ' Week 17 win on the road in Dallas , Williams caught two passes for 28 yards , including a fourth quarter 50 - yard pass . Oakland Raiders . Williams was traded along with Josh McCown to the Oakland Raiders during the first day of the 2007 NFL Draft in exchange for a 2007 fourth - round pick which the Lions used to select A . J . Davis . In Oakland , Williams reunited with his former college positions coach Lane Kiffin . On October 28 , 2007 , in a road game against the Tennessee Titans , Raiders quarterback Daunte Culpepper threw a pass to Williams which , if caught , would have given the Raiders the first down and brought them into the red zone . Instead , Williams dropped the football and the Raiders lost possession , on a turnover on downs , and lost the game because the Titans maintained possession for the remaining time on the clock . Williams ' error turned out to be his last play with Oakland as the Raiders released him a few days later . Tennessee Titans . Williams signed with the Tennessee Titans on November 22 , 2007 , reuniting him with former USC running back LenDale White and his former offensive coordinator from USC , Norm Chow . ESPN ' s Chris Mortensen reported that Williams weighed 250 pounds at the time of the signing , unusually high for a wide receiver , where most position players are less than 230 pounds . He was inactive for his first game with the team . He saw action in the next two games but made no receptions . Williams lost 30 pounds in the off - season by boxing , playing basketball , and doing pilates . He reported to organized team activities in May 2008 at 240 pounds . On July 31 , the Titans released Williams . Seattle Seahawks . After spending two years out of football , Williams signed with the Seattle Seahawks on April 15 , 2010 , reuniting Williams with former USC head coach Pete Carroll . After the Seahawks released T . J . Houshmandzadeh , Williams joined the starting unit , and during his debut for Seattle , Williams recorded four catches for 64 yards . In Week 6 , he had career highs in both catches and yards going 10 catches for 123 yards in a 23 - 20 win against Chicago . He topped this performance four weeks later against the Cardinals , catching 11 passes for 145 yards . On Monday , January 3 , the Seahawks rewarded Williams for his comeback season with a three - year contract extension . After reporting to mini camp , he was released by the Seattle Seahawks on July 13 , 2012 . As of July 14 , 2012 the Kansas City Chiefs , Miami Dolphins , and San Diego Chargers have given him offers . Toronto Argonauts . On May 23rd , 2013 , Williams left the NFL as a free agent to play for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and was released on May 31st .