Written by ESPN News Staff at ESPN.com
Free-agent running back DeAngelo Williams is still “waiting on the phone call” to join a team for the 2017 season, but there are four teams that he’d rather not hear from.
Williams, who scored 17 touchdowns as Le’Veon Bell’s backup for two seasons in Pittsburgh, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter in his Know Them From Adam podcast that he’d rather not play for the Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars or Dallas Cowboys.
While his reasons for not wanting to play for the Browns and Jaguars were business-related, they were purely personal regarding the Panthers and Cowboys.
He said the Panthers are on his do not call list because of the way they handled his release in 2015. He ran for 6,846 yards and 46 rushing TDs in his nine seasons with Carolina.
“I had no problems with getting fired, but there are things that went on there that I didn’t like — and I still don’t like to this day,” Williams told Schefter. “… There’s no point in me going back there. You’re an ex for a reason, right? You don’t go back to exes, and that’s just where I’m at there.”
Williams, 34, who grew up as a fan of the San Francisco 49ers, wants nothing to do with the Cowboys — mainly because of their fans.
“My fandom for the team I was raised as will not allow me to go to the Cowboys,” Williams told Schefter. “I’m an ’80s baby … and the 49ers ruled the ’80s. The Cowboys somewhat did something in the ’90s; I even refuse to give them that. The Cowboys, they win. They just don’t ever show up during the playoffs. They always disappear in the playoffs. ”
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