Born Errick Lynne Williams, Jr., Ricky Williams is a well known name in the sports industry. Under the latest estimations, his net worth has reached the sum of $3 million, thus making him one of the multi millionaires in the industry. Ricky has earned his net worth as a professional football player. Now he has retired, after playing in the Canadian Football League for one season and in the US National Football League for eleven seasons. The period he has been playing football for professionally was most significant, and significantly increased the total amount of Williams net worth. Ricky Williams is a winner of the Heisman Trophy. As for now, Ricky Williams adds to his net worth working as the assistant coach of the University of the Incarnate World team.
Ricky Williams Net Worth $3 Million
Errick Lynne Williams, Jr. was born on May 21, 1977 in San Diego, California, United States. He first played in the football team of his high school Patrick Henry High School in San Diego. Afterwards, he was a very significant football team member of The Texas Longhorns while studying at college. While playing at the college he received many awards as follows: Chic Harley Award, Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Awards, Jim Brown Trophy, Doak Walker Award and others.
Ricky began his professional career as well as the accumulation of his net worth in 1999. He was chosen in the NFL Draft first round, fifth pick by the New Orleans Saints team. Being 1.80m height and 111kg weight he perfectly suited for the position of a running back. Williams played for New Orleans Saints from 1999 to 2001, for the Miami Dolphins from 2002 to 2003. In 2004, Ricky Williams was forced into early retirement because of his positive drug addiction test which showed marijuana abuse. However, a year later in 2005 he managed to come back to professional sport and continued playing with the Miami Dolphins for a year. The season of 2006 Williams spent playing in the Canadian football league for the Toronto Argonauts. He accepted the offer to play in the Canadian league as it allowed him to teach yoga as he is also a professional yoga instructor. From 2007 to 2010 he played in National Football League for the Miami Dolphins team, and ended his professional career playing for Baltimore Ravens in 2011.
Williams increased his net worth by winning a lot of significant awards which include The Pro Bowl trophy (2002), NFL Rushing Leader (2002), The Pro Bowl Most Valuable Player trophy (2002). He has also been inducted into the 10,000 Rushing Yards Club.
Ricky Williams has added much to his net worth by appearing in the media as a football analyst, plus as an actor on various shows, and in charity events. Williams claims to be vegan and doesn’t eat meat at all.
In 2009, Ricky Williams married his long term girlfriend, Kristin Barnes. The couple has three children together. It has also been reported that Williams has fathered six children altogether.
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