In Detroit’s 52-6 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams reached a career high with 124 yards on four receptions.

Williams’ output included a 64-yard touchdown reception on a play that Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson said he shouldn’t have called.

Williams’ reaction: “Who cares?”

“(Quarterback Jared) Goff, he actually told me the same thing,” Williams said. “He was supposed to kill the play to a run because it was Cover 2. But he seen the linebacker turn out and run with me. He still put it to where like I could run past him — you know, perfect pass. I could just run and catch it and keep going, so, you know, it’s good. Sometimes you might be in a wrong situation, but the play might work still.”

Johnson said Williams and other Detroit players such as running back Jahmyr Gibbs have made some of his bad play-calls work as the Lions have piled up nine wins for the best record in the NFC this season.

“I think a great example was his touchdown last week,” Johnson said. “I’ve got this bad habit right now of calling that particular pass concept into Cover 2, and it’s usually a dead play when I do that, and he makes it work. There’s a number things, and it’s certainly him, but there’s a number of other players – Gibby’s another one — where they’re erasers. They’re fixers. If things aren’t quite right, they make it right. And he has certainly given us that element in the passing game, and I think defenses take notice of that.”

According to the NFL’s NextGen Stats, Williams and Gibbs are among the fastest players in the NFL with the football in their hands.

“I think that’s a large part of it,” Johnson said about the role of the players’ speed in making his play-calls work. “I think they got great instincts of how to make people miss in the open field. And I think you find defenders take poor angles when trying to bring them down in space as well. I think that’s a great element they bring to the table, no doubt.”

On his touchdown reception, Williams reached a top speed of 20.15 mph on his way to the end zone.

On a 54-yard catch-and-run in the same game, Gibbs hit 21.8 mph. That’s the sixth-fastest speed recorded for a ball-carrier in the NFL this season. But it’s not Gibbs’ top speed. He ran 22.03 mph on a 70-yard touchdown run in a 52-14 victory over the Tennessee Titans on Oct. 27. That’s the third-fastest speed recorded for a ball-carrier in the NFL this season.

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Williams’ top speed with the football this season has been 21.03 mph on a 36-yard reception in a 26-20 overtime victory against the Los Angeles Rams on Sept. 8.

Williams still said he would win a race with Gibbs.

“I just know I’m faster,” Williams said.

Asked if Gibbs wouldn’t name himself as faster, too, Williams said: “He should say me, though.”

Johnson avoided the who-would-win-a-race question.

“It depends on who you ask,” Johnson said. “I know where I’d put my money, but I’m not going to say that publicly.”

Williams and Gibbs followed similar paths to Detroit.

In his single season at Alabama after transferring from Ohio State, Williams had 79 receptions for 1,572 yards and 15 touchdowns and returned 10 kickoffs for a 35.2-yard average and two touchdowns. After his Crimson Tide career ended in a 33-18 loss to Georgia in the CFP championship game, Williams joined the Lions as the 12th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

In his single season at Alabama after transferring from Georgia Tech, Gibbs ran for 926 yards and seven touchdowns on 151 carries, caught 44 passes for 444 yards and three touchdowns and returned 13 kickoffs for a 19.8-yard average. After his Crimson Tide career ended in a 45-20 victory over Kansas State in the Sugar Bowl, Gibbs joined the Lions as the 12th pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.

The Lions carry an eight-game winning streak into their meeting with the Indianapolis Colts at noon CST Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The Colts have a 5-6 mark. The Lions are 9-1 in 2024.

“I think we’re in a real good groove,” Williams said. “We’re stacking wins. You know, we’re practicing hard. We’re still competing with each other to make each other better, so I feel like we’re still not even at our best yet. We’re rolling, though.

“I feel like we can get better every week. We can get better every day, and we go out there and we just show it on the field on Sunday, so I feel like we still can stack days. And with us stacking those days and competing with each other and making each other better, who knows how good we can be?”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.