Donovan Williams - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Iowa State

Oct 11 (Sat)

1:30 PM

Donovan Williams

Title:
Offensive Graduate Assistant Coach
Email:
donovan.williams@colorado.edu
Phone:
303-492-9784

                Donovan Williams is in his second year as graduate assistant for the offense, as he joined the Colorado staff in March 2020.

                Williams, 26, came to Colorado from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Belton, Texas), where he was a graduate assistant coach for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. He worked with the offensive line in 2019 and with the running backs and the A-backs the previous year. He was a member of the Crusaders Division III national championship staff in 2018, when the team went 15-0 and defeated Mt. Union, 24-16, in the title game.

                His began his coaching career in the summer of 2017 as a student assistant at his alma mater, Louisiana-Lafayette, where he lettered twice as an offensive lineman (guard) for the 2014-15 seasons. He started all 25 games over the two seasons, and helped spark a rushing attack that finished 23rd in the NCAA in 2014 and produced the school’s fourth 1,000-yard rusher in ULL’s history (Elijah McGuire, who also gain over 1,000 in 2015). The Ragin Cajuns’ won the 2014 New Orleans Bowl, besting Nevada, 16-3.

                At Louisiana, he played for head coach Mark Hudspeth and offensive line coach Mitch Rodrigue, who also joined the CU staff ahead of the 2020 season. He was a first-team All-Southwest Junior College Football Conference performer at Blinn College, which reached the SWJCFC semifinals his sophomore season (2013).

                He was invited to and played in the 2016 NFLPA Bowl and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Chicago Bears and then with the Indianapolis Colts. He also played with the Green Bay Blizzard in the Indoor Football League.

                Williams earned his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Louisiana-Lafayette in 2017, and received his master’s in Administrative Education from Mary Hardin-Baylor in 2020.

                He was born September 21, 1993 in San Antonio, Texas and graduated from its Madison High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track; he earned first-team all-district and all-area honors and was also an academic all-district team member.