Being reported he has passed away following a recent accident on a construction site.
Only 36 years old. Super sad.
RIP
Damn. Way too young
On football note, He had promising start. Guess he never recovered from injury
Sad end for MW.
Sad on many levels.
working on construction site at 36 and he probably made millions during his career?
He might own a construction company
Williams suffered injuries during an accident while working at a construction site, a steel beam apparently fall on his head, via @JonScottTV
Being reported he has passed away following a recent accident on a construction site.
Only 36 years old. Super sad.
RIP
Sad. My best memory of Williams was how he interacted with fans in the endzone during pregame warm-ups. He used to toss his gloves into the stands - seeing the fans who caught the gloves faces was very memorable.
there's a go-fund me to assist with his burialHe might own a construction company
Update: Former #Bucs, #Bills WR Mike Williams is currently on life support following construction accident, an hasn't passed, via
, who corrected a report by
It's an inevitable process, according to
but currently Mike Williams is still alive despite the previous report.
TAMPA — Tierney Lyle walked out of the
intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s
Hospital, where Mike Williams lay
motionless, connected to a web of tubes
that kept breathing for him.
As the mother of Williams’ 8-year-old
daughter, Mya, she was struggling to find
the words to explain how the former Bucs
receiver ended up partially paralyzed and
on life support following a construction
accident in Hillsborough County last week.
“She’s mad. She cried so much yesterday and today. She’s just angry,” Lyle,
32, said of her daughter Wednesday. “That was daddy’s girl. His Instagram
was mikemyajr19. She has all the athletic skills. She’s a gymnast. A natural,
since she was, like, 4. She was blessed with all that ability.”
Mike Williams’ ability was on display for four seasons at the Bucs training
facility, which is across the street from Williams’ hospital bed on the third
floor of Building C.
Lyle said she believed Williams, 36, was doing better since the accident,
having been put into a transitional care unit but without movement from the
waist down. She said he faced the prospect of eight hours of therapy daily for
months to come.
“He was on his way to recovery,” Lyle said. “Then over the weekend, he went
into cardiac arrest.” She said an MRI exam revealed Williams had no brain
activity.
Lyle said Williams’ family was waiting for her and Mya to spend time with
him before taking him off life support Wednesday.
“We’re here and still trying to figure it out,” Lyle said. “He was asleep when
we went in there, and he woke up when he heard our voices and his
daughter’s voice. And he looked around and blinked, and he was crying, but
he can’t move.”
A TV station in Buffalo, New York, reported it had confirmed Tuesday night
that Williams had died as a result of his injuries. The news was picked up by
media outlets across the country, including The Tampa Bay Times.
Lyle said she drove with her mother and Mya from their home in Manatee
County on Wednesday. They visited with him in the room twice.
“I did see him,” Lyle said. “I talked to him. We cried. It’s like he knew we
were there.”
A fourth-round draft pick out of Syracuse in 2010, Williams burst onto the
scene with 964 yards receiving and 11 touchdowns that season. That made
him an NFL Pepsi Offensive Rookie of the Year finalist.
Williams played four seasons with Tampa Bay before being traded to his
hometown Bills in 2014. He finished his career spending part of 2016 with
the Chiefs in the offseason.
Contact Olivia George at ogeorge@tampabay.com. Follow @OliviaCGeorge.
Contact Rick Stroud at rstroud@tampabay.com. Follow @NFLSTROUD.
Gofundme and not dead yet smh
I get a kick out of all the “ I can confirm “ crowd ….really you can lol
Gofundme and not dead yet smh
”Not even dead yet”…
Par for the course for the board’s resident douche bag.
And, it was a GoFundMe that specifically stated pertained to constant travel expenses and missed work for the parent(s).
