The Philadelphia Eagles created headlines throughout the NFL last week when they released Bernard Williams.
It was hard to believe that it was that Bernard Williams, who last played in the NFL 29 years ago before going on stints with the XFL, AFL and CFL. But yes, it was indeed the 51-year-old Williams who was delivering for Amazon when he got the news.
“I was actually at work when a kid I coached in high school, Ventell Boulware — a scout for the Packers — called [and] asked when was the last time I did anything with the NFL. I told him I had just applied for some benefits recently, and he said, ‘Well your name just came across the [transaction] wire.’ I’m like, ‘For what?’ And he was like, ‘The Eagles released you.’ I had some kind of idea, but they never released me. And I always wondered what happened with that,” Williams told Andrew DiCecco of Inside the Birds.
“When I went to Canada, the Eagles kept my rights through all of that. They never released my rights. But I had no idea that I was still on the roster 29 years later.”
The Eagles took Williams with the 14th overall pick of the 1994 NFL Draft.
