Cowboys add Rawleigh Williams as summer intern
By Chase Goodbread
College Football 24/7 writer
Published: May 31, 2017 at 04:13 p.m.
Just weeks after deciding to hang up his football cleats, Rawleigh Williams is at least getting a chance to stay around the game.
The former Arkansas running back retired from the sport earlier this month after a scary injury in the Razorbacks' spring game left him no other choice. He's since received an opportunity from the Dallas Cowboys for a summer internship, however, and has accepted the offer, according to seccountry.com.
Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said Williams had other internship options with NFL clubs, per the report, but the fit here is obvious: Williams is a Dallas native, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones played at Arkansas in the 1960s.
Williams was the SEC's third-leading rusher last season with 1,360 yards and 12 touchdowns. However, he was coming off a neck injury that required surgery to fuse a ruptured disc in 2015. After Williams was hurt again in the spring game with what school officials described as a stinger on April 29 -- he reportedly was unable to move initially -- he decided to walk away from the sport, saying in an open letter that he had "dodged the bullet twice."