Ryan Williams won’t be 17 anymore when the 2025 Alabama football season begins. The Crimson Tide wide receiver, the most famous minor in college football during his true freshman year, will be facing enormous expectations as a sophomore, with a new quarterback and facing defenses that have plenty of tape on him.

The 2024 college football season saw a whole new flock of athletes take the world by storm, namely wide receiver Jeremiah Smith at Ohio State, who capped off the season with the game-sealing catch in the national title.