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2022 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 68
BY SENATOR BERNARD
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Kyle Williams on being inducted into the 2022 class of
the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend Kyle Williams on being inducted into the 2022 class of the Louisiana Sports
3 Hall of Fame.
4 WHEREAS, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, Louisiana, each year
5 collaborates with the Louisiana Sports Writers Association in selecting a limited number of
6 sports figures who embody the character, skill, and talent worthy of being named to the Hall
7 of Fame; and
8 WHEREAS, the 2022 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class includes
9 Kyle Williams; and
10 WHEREAS, Kyle Williams is a native of Ruston, Louisiana, where he graduated
11 from Ruston High School and was rated as one of the nation's top defensive prospects in
12 2002; and
13 WHEREAS, in his senior year of high school, Williams was named the Louisiana
14 Class 5A Defensive Most Valuable Player (MVP) after recording seventy-eight tackles,
15 seventeen for losses and seven sacks, and in that season, he recorded six forced fumbles, four
16 recovered fumbles, and one interception; and
17 WHEREAS, as a former Louisiana State University (LSU) All-American standout,
18 Williams played in forty-six games with thirty-three starts; and
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1 WHEREAS, Williams was named a second-team Associated Press All-American in
2 his senior year at LSU and helped the LSU Tigers claim the Bowl Championship Series
3 (BCS) title in 2003; and
4 WHEREAS, during his career at LSU, Williams had one hundred forty tackles with
5 twenty-six tackles for loss and he had sixteen and one-half sacks; and
6 WHEREAS, Williams was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 2006 National Football
7 League Draft; and
8 WHEREAS, Williams spent his entire NFL career playing defensive tackle for the
9 Bills and played in one hundred eighty-three games and was a starter in one hundred
10 seventy-eight games; and
11 WHEREAS, Williams' best season with the Bills was in 2013 when he totaled
12 sixty-eight tackles with ten and one-half sacks and twenty-two quarterback hits; and
13 WHEREAS, Kyle Williams, a six-time Pro Bowler, was described as the "heart and
14 soul" of the Bills during his professional football career; and
15 WHEREAS, during the last football game he played as a member of the Buffalo
16 Bills, Williams had three tackles and, in what turned out to be the final play of his career,
17 Williams caught a nine-yard pass; and
18 WHEREAS, at the time of his retirement, Williams had six hundred ten tackles and
19 sacks, making him one of the top Bills' players in franchise history, and his forty-eight and
20 one-half sacks the most among defensive tackles in a Bills' uniform; and
21 WHEREAS, Kyle Williams was inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of
22 Fame as a member of the 2021 class.
23 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
24 does hereby commend Kyle Williams on being inducted into the 2022 class of the Louisiana
25 Sports Hall of Fame.
26 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
27 Kyle Williams.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Kathy Liberty.
DIGEST
SR 68 Original 2022 Regular Session Bernard
Commends Kyle Williams on being inducted into the 2022 class of the Louisiana Sports Hall
of Fame.
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