DeVonta Smith helping Alabama football is extending past what he did on the field from 2017-2020.

Smith is guiding a current Crimson Tide star too in Ryan Williams.

The former Alabama receiver has worked some with the current Alabama receiver this offseason. Williams, heading into his second season with the Crimson Tide, detailed the experience during an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay podcast.

“Just learning from a guy that’s really defied a lot of odds,” Williams said. “He’s an amazing football player but he’s an even better person I would say. He really embraces you. We were working out and he, I wouldn’t say he doesn’t like working out with other people, but he likes working out with certain people. Just for him to accept me and us being able to bounce ideas off each other and really get after it, those couple days, it was super fun. I learned a lot. I’ve been applying it since I’ve been from there. I am just super excited for this season.”

Smith has plenty to share. The former Heisman Trophy winner who won two national championships at Alabama is fresh off a Super Bowl championship with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Williams was asked what surprised him most about the way Smith trains.

“I would just say everything he does, it’s very deliberate,” Williams said. “You can see his body movements. If you just look at him, he’s not the biggest guy. The way he’s able to control his body is truly remarkable. I learned a lot about the little details of how I can do that for myself and just taking my game to the next level. We’re already pretty good athletes and pretty good football players, but diving into that small percentage, say we’re in the highest percentile, but you have that small percentage you can work on, when you really dive into that, that’s whenever the biggest gains are made. Just seeing him do that, it’s crazy.”

Williams, a former Saraland star, was also asked what he learned from Smith from a receiver technique standpoint that could help him this season.

“Everything looks the same,” Williams said. “Every time he comes off the ball, it all looks the same. That’s what you want as a receiver anyway. You want to make everything look like a go ball. Making everything look vertical. The way he sinks his hips, I learned a lot. We really talked about that. You don’t want to come off the ball already low. That’s not how you play football. And you don’t want to come high. When you sink your hips, the defender, a good defender, just being able to find that sweet spot. Everything looks like just being able to misconstrue the defensive back is pretty much half of our job. The rest, we’re going to make a play. Just being able to apply what you do every single day and always making it look the same. The consistency of everything he does, it looks the exact same every single time.”

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