Joel Klatt believes Ryan Williams can be answer for Alabama at wide receiver

Plenty of players for the Crimson Tide got to see the field in Alabama‘s dominant 63-0 win over Western Kentucky to open up the college football season. But the most exciting player may have been true freshman wide receiver Ryan Williams.

Williams only had two catches on the day, but both were for touchdowns as he also racked up a team-leading 139 yards against the Hill Toppers. Serving as a major sign of positivity for Alabama’s offense in the eyes of college football analyst Joel Klatt.

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“Ryan Williams, if he is this good, than Kalen DeBoer has answers at wide receiver for the Tide,” Klatt said on his show Wednesday. “Which is not what they’ve had in the last two years.”

“If you were to ask me what has been the biggest difference between Alabama’s teams the last two years and the ones previous to that, and in particular when you get to that 2020,’19, ’18, you can go all the way back to like Julio Jones, Amari Cooper, Jerry Jeudy, Jaylen Waddle, DeVonta Smith, Jameson Williams out there. And they haven’t had that in the last couple of years, they just have not.”

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Alabama has not had a 1,000-yard wide receiver in the past two seasons following five-straight years with a wideout reaching the milestone. With Williams potentially representing the next in line that could take the Alabama offense to another level with their mastermind of a head coach.

“Now if Ryan Williams becomes Him, if you will, then all of a sudden they are back in that mold and they have an elite playmaker on the outside. And now they have it not some random offensive coordinator, I know all those guys didn’t have random offense coordinators. You had [Lane] Kiffin in there, you had Sark [Steve Sarkisian] in there. But now you’ve got Kalen DeBoer,” Klatt said.

Elite wide receiver play helped DeBoer lead Washington to breakout success in the last two college football seasons when he was the head coach of the Huskies. Including an unexpected trip to last year’s national championship game.

“Think Rome Odunze, look at what DeBoer does with elite wide receivers. He just took Washington and went to the national championship game. I know [Michael] Penix was outstanding, but a lot of that was the fact that he had great, elite wide receiver play,” Klatt explained. “So if Ryan Williams is an elite player on the outside, watch out for Alabama because Kalen DeBoer specifically knows what to do with a room like that.”

“Ryan Williams could grow into that, he could be DeBoer’s new Odunze and that’s scary for everybody.”

There’s no question Williams showed he has a high- ceiling on Saturday, making himself a surefire player to watch for the Crimson Tide who could make a major impact in his first collegiate season.