Tre' Williams played college football at its highest level -- as a standout for the Auburn Tigers in the Southeastern Conference - and has begun to carve a path as a top young assistant coach in the game.
Now Williams is both getting a chance to return to his roots and grow his career in the process.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Williams, a Mobile, Alabama, native, who shined for Auburn, became a team captain for the Tigers and has been on staff at Arkansas-Monticello as a linebacker and special teams coordinator, is poised to join the South Alabama staff of Kane Wommack as a special teams coordinator.
The deal is not yet finalized, but sources indicate there's optimism on reaching a deal to pair Williams with the record-setting Wommack, fresh off a 10-win season and contract extension with the Jaguars.
A former All-SEC selection from his time as a linebacker at Auburn, Williams has coached at the prep level, spent time on staff in a graduate assistant role at Central Florida and then worked on the Arkansas-Monticello staff after serving under his former head coach at Auburn, Gus Malzahn, during his year at UCF.
Williams also was briefly with the NFL's Detroit Lions and in the XFL as he continued his playing career at the professional level before transitioning into coaching.
After its own attention-grabbing, 10-win season in 2022, South Alabama finds itself opening its 2023 slate against a similarly surprising story in college football -- at Willie Fritz's Tulane program. The Green Wave capped their '22 Renaissance campaign with a stunning win against Lincoln Riley's Southern Cal Trojans in the Cotton Bowl.