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'I'm going to be an original': forget comparisons to Randy or T.O. or Keyshawn. Mike Williams plays only one way--his way--and he's proving he's still on after a year off.(NFL)

The Sporting News

| April 15, 2005 | Bradley, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This is the time of year when we search for ways to describe NFL prospects. We wrack our mental highlight reels and try to define these football immigrants in terms all can understand, usually ending up with a Frankenstein's monster of a player, cobbled together with parts of others and hardly resembling the person we're trying to define.

Mike Williams has a solution to that: Don't do it. At least not with him. The wide receiver doesn't want to be told he's T.O. this, Randy that or something like Keyshawn. "I'm going to be an original," he says.

Given the path Williams has taken to the NFL draft, it makes sense not to define him in terms of others. No ...

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