Delvin Williams

Delvin Williams

A two-time all-pro player and the first man to have rushed for more than 1,000 yards in a single season for teams from both the original AFL and NFL. Today, Delvin is inspiring others, helping carry the ball for all athletes, professional and amateur, male and female, who, after years of giving their all, find their career suddenly over.

Delvin Williams carries the scars from 19 surgeries, the results from having carried the ball more than 1,300 times as an elite running back in the National Football League.

After a career that started when he was chosen out of Kansas in the 2nd round of the 1974 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers and continued with performances in Miami and Green Bay, Delvin retired in 1981 as a two-time all-pro player and the first man to have rushed for more than 1,000 yards in a single season for teams from both the original AFL and NFL.

In the 1980’s, along with Larry Schreiber, he started Pros for Kids a non-profit organization of athletes dedicated to helping kids stay off drugs.

Today, Delvin is helping carry the ball for all athletes, professional and amateur, male and female, who, after years of giving their all, find their career suddenly over. They’re thrown into in a kind of shock, often unprepared for life after sport, and they must face rebuilding their lives to reengage with a new reality, learn a new way to win.

“I had to go through years of therapy to be able to deal with the loss, accept my old identity and let go of all the anger and pain I felt. It was incredibly hard and so I’m compelled to help with easing the pain of athletes, and anyone else, experiencing traumatic loss.”

Delvin has founded the Athletes Reengagement Alliance, and is completing a book about his experience. Both are dedicated to serve any of us who are being forced to reinvent ourselves after being fired from a job, getting divorced, losing a loved one, facing addiction, severe injury, coming back from war or out of incarceration, or any of the other dislocating tragedies of modern life.



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