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The Minnesota Vikings announce the hiring of Tyler Williams as exectuive director of player health and performance on March 9, 2022. Williams spent the past 15 seasons with the Rams in both St. Louis and Los Angeles, serving as the team's director of sports science/assistant athletic trainer during their Super Bowl LVI victory. 

Williams, who worked with Head Coach Kevin O'Connell from 2020-21, was named the NFC recipient of the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society's (PFATS) Tim Davey Assistant Athletic Trainer of the Year after the 2020 season. Named after longtime New York Jets assistant athletic trainer and team operations employee and NFL game operations employee Tim Davey, the award is "emblematic of the commitment, dedication and high level of integrity that Davey brought to the profession of athletic training and is representative of his level of service which he dedicated to his surrounding community."

The Minnesota Vikings announce the hiring of Tyler Williams as exectuive director of player health and performance on March 9, 2022. Williams spent the past 15 seasons with the Rams in both St. Louis and Los Angeles, serving as the team's director of sports science/assistant athletic trainer during their Super Bowl LVI victory. 

Williams, who worked with Head Coach Kevin O'Connell from 2020-21, was named the NFC recipient of the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society's (PFATS) Tim Davey Assistant Athletic Trainer of the Year after the 2020 season. Named after longtime New York Jets assistant athletic trainer and team operations employee and NFL game operations employee Tim Davey, the award is "emblematic of the commitment, dedication and high level of integrity that Davey brought to the profession of athletic training and is representative of his level of service which he dedicated to his surrounding community."

In 2015, Williams was a member of a Rams athletic training staff that won PFATS' Ed Block NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year Award, which is voted on by the PFATS membership and recognizes one NFL athletic training staff annually for their distinguished service to their club, community, and athletic training profession.

Besides his involvement in PFATS and serving as their director of internal education since 2017, Williams is also a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), certified in Functional Movement Screen (FMS-C), and serves on the Lower Extremity Task Force for the NFL Musculoskeletal Community.

Prior to joining the Rams in 2007, Williams was the assistant athletic trainer at Fontbonne University in St. Louis from 2006-07. Williams holds a master's degree from California University of Pennsylvania, earning a Performance Enhancement Specialist certification. He completed his bachelor's degree in exercise science emphasizing athletic training at Truman State University. He and his wife Katie have a daughter, Delaney.