Franklin Jeffrey Williams (born May 7, 1943) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player who played as a halfback in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

(NFL) in 1966. Born in

High Springs, Florida High Springs is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in Alachua County and seventh-largest in North Central Florida. The population was 6,215 at the 2020 census. History The present-day area of High S ...

, he attended A. L. Mebane High School and

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...

, playing 20 games for the Oklahoma State Cowboys between 1963 and 1964. He made a total of 90 rushing attempts for 357 yards and one touchdown, and 21 receptions for 190 yards and two touchdowns. He was undrafted going into the NFL, winding up with the

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in the 1966 season. He played three games and recorded one rushing attempt for two yards and a fumble, four punt returns for −2 yards, and three kickoff returns for 61 yards.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Jeff 1943 births Living people People from High Springs, Florida Players of American football from Florida American football halfbacks Oklahoma State Cowboys football players Minnesota Vikings players