The Dallas Cowboys decided to beef up their defensive front in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft by taking edge rusher Sam Williams. 

He had to pick his spots, but Williams logged 22 tackles (10 tackles for loss), four sacks, a forced fumble, and three fumble recoveries. However, Williams is taking his impact beyond the playing field. 

Williams hosted a free youth football camp on June 10 at Marbury High School in Deatsville, Alabama for 150 kids. Local coaches along with Williams organized drills for the youngsters while Cracker Barrel and Front Porch Grill proved breakfast and lunch. 

"Yes, it's a football camp but that's not my main reason why I'm here. I want to give these kids something, like I said that I never had before or the people in my generation never had before. I want to show them like what's the outcome motivation and dedication," Williams said.

In today's world, there's so many other things, that aren't productive at all, for kids to get into so having something like this camp that Williams hosted is a perfect way to keep kids from getting off track. 

It gets even deeper than that for Williams, though.

"The reason I chose this is because I have like two people that's like dear to my heart that was a victim to gun violence," said Williams. "One was my older brother. He was back home transferring from JUCO to go to Alabama State and I found out that someone was shooting at my house and hit my brother twice and he died.

"And then a year later, I'm on my way back to Ole Miss and I get a call saying that my niece died from someone having an argument outside and they started shooting at each other but one bullet went through the house and hit my niece in the head."

That's tragic, to say the least.

Williams has taken that pain and used it to spread a positive message and one that can inspire others to do the same in their communities. 

"I want to use them, my brother and niece, basically as a reminder like it's not worth it or something like it can be prevented or it can stop one day and hopefully one of these days using this cause, using whatever my name, whatever, that one day like it will reach out to the world and see like my whole vision of this cause."

Salute to Williams for giving back and making a difference. 

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