There aren’t many NFL athletes like Trent Williams. The 49ers’ All-Everything left tackle is the rarest combination of size and athleticism that allows him to do things like go in motion on a run play to bulldoze defensive ends and linebackers.
His athletic feats aren’t limited to the gridiron though. 49ers tight end George Kittle told a story on Bussin With the Boys about a time Williams got after it in the weight room.
“We had a night game and we flew back, I think we got home at like 3:00 or 4:00 AM and we work out at like 12:00 the next day. He shows up, and you can do what you kind of wanna do on Mondays – lift, sweat a little bit, get all the kinks out,” Kittle said. “He got upset about something like they wanted him to do a little bit more, and he was like, ‘okay, watch what I can do.’ And he gets under the squat rack bar and he has 315 (pounds) on it, reps it for three. Puts a plate on, reps it for three. Puts a plate on, reps it for three. Gets up to like 615 or 650 or something like that, and the coach is like, ‘you don’t need to do that.’ And (Trent) looks at him and he goes, ‘for sure.’ Reps it for 10 times. 10 times over 600 pounds. I watched it live. 600 over 10 times … Racks it and goes, ‘I’m good, right?’ and he just walked out.”
This is particularly wild given that Williams played a full NFL football game the night before this.
There are a handful of logical conclusions to how Williams is able to accomplish what he does in regards to speed and strength for a person his size, but the one we keep falling back on is that he’s actually an Avenger.
Williams is in hiding and needs an outlet for his skills, so he chooses professional football where he can use some of his powers to be the best player at perhaps the second-most important position in the sport. Then every once in awhile he reaches a little deeper into his bag to show up a coach that might’ve irked him less than 12 hours after they landed from a flight home.
Of course, he might also just work super hard to maintain that high level of athleticism. While this is the more reasonable, unquestionably correct answer, we’re not taking Avenger off the table.
