DALLAS -- One of Alabama’s best pass rushers will be back for his senior season, he told BamaOnLine.

Junior outside linebacker Tim Williams said he will return to Tuscaloosa next season instead of entering the 2016 NFL Draft when he spoke at the Crimson Tide’s Media Day in AT&T Stadium on Tuesday morning.

“That’s something I plan on doing,” Williams told BamaOnLine, “because it’s gonna really help me out as far as me having that extra year to show the NFL I can play first and second down and not shoot myself in the foot going in just as a specialist.

“I have dreams, I have goals. I really wanna be a first-round, top-10 pick.”

Williams, who has been a situational pass rusher for Alabama, is second on the roster with 9.5 sacks. He has excelled in applying pressure on quarterbacks, but he wants to show everyone he can be an every-down linebacker because turning pro.

“I’m ready right now,” Williams said. “It’s like our team, man, we got a bunch of guys that can come in and play, make a play. We have a brotherhood of guys. We believe in the team. As long as the team wins, then everybody else is happy.

“I got two great guys in front of me as far as first and second down in Denzel Devall and Dillon Lee, awesome players and they’re senior. When they leave next, I’ve got a chance to start on first and second down.”

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