Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams got a two-game reprieve on his NFL suspension, and the former Alabama All-American wants to make the most of it by playing on Sunday.

Williams rejoined the Lions this week after missing the first four games of the season. The NFL suspended Williams for six games on April 21 for violating the league’s gambling policy. Since then, the NFL has changed its rules, and Williams’ transgression – betting on non-league games while at a team facility – has become a two-game violation.

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The NFL reinstated Williams on Friday.

“It’s awesome,” Williams said on Tuesday. “I feel good. Today was one of the better days in the last month, just getting out there and getting on the field. We had a good day yesterday, so today I put pads on, and I felt good today out there with the guys.”

Before his suspension started, Williams missed Detroit’s final two preseason games because of a hamstring injury.

“I feel good,” Williams said about the injury. “We got everything together and we’re ready to go.”

Williams said he thinks he’ll be in uniform when the Lions play the Carolina Panthers at noon CDT Sunday at Ford Field in Detroit.

“I just got to tune up some small little things,” Williams said.

Lions wide-receivers coach Antwaan Randle El said he expected Williams to be ready mentally for his return, and the team would see where he stood physically.

“I’m expecting him to know it,” Randle El said on Tuesday. “You’ve been off? Get in here and know it. You had time to study. And I would venture that’s what’s going to show up for him – being where he’s supposed to be when he’s supposed to be there.

“Now, when that takes place in terms of him playing, we’ll see what that looks like. But he’s got to get his legs under him and all that stuff, and we’ll see what it leads to.”

Williams joined Detroit as the 12th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, but he’s played in only six of the Lions’ 21 regular-season games since then.

Williams played 78 offensive snaps during his rookie season because he sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his final college game – the CFP national-championship contest for the 2021 season. Williams wasn’t able to practice with his NFL teammates until Nov. 21. The Lions activated him on Dec. 3, and he made his NFL debut the next day, 47 weeks after his knee injury.

Williams had two touches during his rookie season. On Dec. 11, Williams started the Lions’ scoring in a 34-23 victory over the Minnesota Vikings with a 41-yard reception. On Jan. 1, Williams went 40 yards on an end-around in Detroit’s 41-10 victory over the Chicago Bears.

This season, Detroit has won three of its four games, and the Lions offense ranks eighth in points, total yards and passing yards and 10th in rushing yards in the NFL this season.

“We know our offense, and putting him back in the mix, how much further we can go,” Randle El said of Williams’ return to the field. “And again, always make sure everyone understands the humbleness part of it: It’s not that he’s the fix-all, be-all from that standpoint. But he brings a different element us and many other teams don’t have in terms of his speed and the way he runs down the field.”

Williams said he hopes to add to the Lions’ momentum built through the first month of the season.

“It’s just a process,” Williams said. “Whatever (offensive coordinator) Ben (Johnson) got going on for me, we’re going to get in, we’re going to execute, we’re going to make it a good time. We’re just looking forward to keep winning. We’re 3-1 right now. Hopefully, we can just keep this season going with just one ‘L,’ make it to the playoffs and go far.”

Williams thinks he’ll quickly get in sync with quarterback Jared Goff.

“We had time in camp,” Williams said. “We just had some time today. After practice, we get stuff, whatever he thinks is good or we need, so I don’t think it’ll take a lot of time. It’ll be good work and we’ll get going.”

Williams had to watch the Lions’ first four games on television at home. Former Alabama teammate Brian Branch gave Williams a charge in the opening game when he returned an interception 50 yards for a touchdown in a 21-20 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 7.

“You ask him. After the first pick, I’m texting him,” Williams said. “The minute it happened, I picked up my phone and texted him. …

“A lot of people know he can play ball now, so he’s just got to keep that going. I know he can keep it going because I done seen it for a couple of years playing football, so he’s a real good ball player. I told people that from the start.”

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