DeAngelo Williams is a guy who was quiet his first two years in the league despite being a first-round pick by the Panthers in 2006. Last year, the kid from Memphis blew up, scoring 20 touchdowns and ranking as the top overall fantasy player in the entire NFL. In case you’re still a little slow recognizing the arrival of DeAngelo, allow me to show you this crazy, Barry Sanders-like run of his from week two of the preseason. I saw this in the highlights over the weekend but forgot about it until Jimmy at SI Hot Clicks posted it. Freaking spectacular.
You can say the Panthers have some excellent run-blocking — and that’s true — but that play was all about the individual efforts of DeAngelo. Man, they should turn that into one of those NFL Fantasy File commercials as a reason to draft him. He might not score 20 TDs again, but with moves like that he’ll continue to impress.
