Tank's Biography
Height: 6-2
Weight: 223
Hometown: Bay St. Louis, MS
College: Stanford
Acquired: D2-'02
Experience: 4
PRO:
One of the league’s top young strong safeties started every game for the Titans in his first two NFL seasons. He was selected in the second round (45th overall) of the 2002 draft. The Stanford graduate adapted to the Titans defense’s complicated coverage schemes with rare ease as a rookie and continued his impressive development in his second year. He helped the team finish second in the NFL against the run in 2002 and first in the league in 2003. Williams possesses the strength, frame and hitting ability of a linebacker but has the speed of a cornerback, having been timed at 4.45 seconds in the 40 prior to being drafted. After spending four seasons with the Titans, he was picked up by the Minnesota Vikings prior to the 2006 season. After suffering a knee injury prior to the 2006 season, Tank hopes to get back on the field and make his presence known for the Vikings during the 2007 season.
PERSONAL:
• Single, splits time between Nashville and Bay St. Louis, Miss.
• Named first-team All-District as junior and senior at Bay St. Louis HS (Miss.) playing both quarterback and safety. As senior, posted 600 yards on 80 carries and four touchdowns while throwing for more than 750 yards and three touchdowns. Tallied over 1,200 yards in total offense and scored 12 TDs as a junior.
• Member of National Honor Society and Who’s Who Among American High School Students during prep years.
• After his sophomore season at Stanford, returned to Bay St. Louis to volunteer at Green Bay Packer quarterback and Mississippi native Brett Favre’s football camp.
• Enjoys working with the Valencia C. Jones United Methodist Church and has donated equipment to his high school alma mater (Bay St. Louis).
• Named Grand Marshall for the 2003 Mardi Gras Festivities Parade in Bay St. Louis, Miss., attended by more than 15,000 people.
• Participated in Kevin Carter's Celebrity Waiter's Dinner, Coach Fisher's Celebrity Softball Game, the Titans Golf Tournament and Titans Caravan.
• List of Favorites: (movie) “Boomerang,” (TV show) “The Young and the Restless,” (music group) Outkast, (sports hero) Jerry Rice, (school subject) history, (food) Steak, (sports media personality) John Madden and (actor/actress) Denzel Washington and Halle Berry.
• Born Clevan Williams on June 30, 1980 in Gulfport, Miss.
TIDBITS:
• Although his first name is Clevan, Williams was nicknamed “Tank” growing up in Bay St. Louis, Miss., because he drank so much milk as a kid that his sister told his mother that she should “give him a tank of milk instead of a bottle.”
• He was never one to watch soap operas until he visited one of his relatives in New Orleans while on Christmas holidays from school. They watched “The Young and the Restless” that week and Williams eventually became a big fan. During the season he records the show at home or watches it at the team’s practice facility.
• While at Stanford, Williams took a statistics class with Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former president Bill Clinton and current senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• During high school, Williams recalls playing basketball against current Indiana Pacers forward Jonathan Bender, who skipped college and went directly to the NBA.
