Travis Williams was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player for the Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

. Williams, drafted at the insistence of Packers' coach Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi

Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight league championships and five in seven years, including winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and...

, returned four kickoffs for touchdowns in his rookie season in 1967, setting an NFL record. Among the returns were two in one game against the Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 to tie another league record. He played four seasons with the Packers and two with the Los Angeles Rams before a knee injury ended his career. In the 1980s, Williams battled depression, and was discovered living in a homeless shelter

Homeless shelter

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External links

• NY Times, Williams died