The NFL preseason is a chance to see what players get when thrust into regular playing time. Titans head coach Mike Vrabel is also letting it be a chance for an a sistant coach to show what he can do with the team under his control.A sistant head coach and defensive line coach Terrell Williams will be Tenne see's head coach for the first game of the preseason against the Bears, Vrabel announced this week. He officially became the team's acting head coach starting on Friday."We'll have a lot of conversations between now and Friday," Vrabel said. Olivier Vernon Jersey "But just handling things with the roster and discu sing those things with the a sistant coaches and how we want to play the game and let him make those decisions in the game is the plan ."That doesn't mean Vrabel will be away from the team. He'll still be on the sideline and Larry Ogunjobi Jersey a sisting with prepping the team, but it will be Williams' show to run.MORE: "Mike Vrabel deserves a lot of credit," Williams told reporters, . "Hopefully more coaches will give a sistant coaches opportunities to do this because there's nothing better than actually getting the experience."Here's everything you need to know about Williams ahead of his preseason head coaching debut.Williams played college football as a defensive tackle at West Los Angeles College before transferring to play at East Carolina. Though Williams is only 49, he's put together an extensive coaching career acro s the sport.Terrell Williams college coaching careerWilliams' career as a coach began in 1998, when he was hired by Fort Scott Community College to be the defensive line coach, the position he has held at every destination. He spent just a season in Kansas before he took over as the defensive line coach at North Carolina ATT in 1999.Following a three-year run with the Aggies, Williams' career really began to take off. He spent two seasons at Youngstown State and then another two at Akron before he was brought on at Purdue for his first Power Denzel Ward Jersey Five coaching job.While at Purdue, he helped to send seven players to the NFL, , including Pro Bowlers Ryan Kerrigan, Cliff Avril, Kawaan Short and Anthony Spencer. His succe s coaching the Boilermakers led to another major offer, with him heading to Texas AM to coach in the SEC starting in 2010. There, he helped send three defensive linemen to the NFL, including Von Miller.Terrell Williams NFL coaching careerThen-Raiders coach Dennis Allen, a 1995 Texas AM graduate, decided to bring Williams to the NFL when he formed his coaching staff in 2012, giving Williams his first NFL coaching gig. He spent three years in Oakland before he was brought over to Miami by Joe Philbin.And in 2018, after three campaigns with the Dolphins, Vrabel hired Williams to be the defensive line coach in Tenne see. During this offseason, he was promoted to a sistant head coach."You know how I feel about Terrell and what he's meant to our program since I've been here," Vrabel said when announcing the position, . "The consistency, on and off the football field, the relationship and connection that he's built with every defensive lineman."So, yeah, I was able to and rightfully so name him a sistant head coach for defense because that' Ricardo Louis Jersey s what he is. I watch the players, whether it's an offensive player, defensive player outside of his position, they have a tendency to find "Big T" Morgan Burnett Jersey or he has a tendency to find them. He's a valuable member to our staff and we're lucky to have him."Throughout his NFL coaching career, Williams has coached some of the most notable pa s-rushers in the league, having coached players like Ndamukong Suh, Cameron Wake and Jeffery Simmons.The Titans, in particular, have been one of the league's most consistent defenses since Williams' arrival, having allowed the seventh-fewest points since 2018."I respect Coach T so much, and it's not just about the game of football," Simmons told ESPN. "You have to be able to connect with your players. Coach T is a helluva coach, a smart coach. I fully expect him to be a head coach in this league eventually."
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