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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Demond Williams Jr. Breaks Contract + Mailbag

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Washington quarterback Demond Williams Jr. enters the transfer portal just four days after signing a $4M+ revenue-sharing contract with the Huskies. Bruce and Ralph break down potential legal ramifications — and potential suitors. Do contracts mean anything in college football's lawless NIL landscape? Plus, does the regular season mean anything anymore?


Bruce's story on Pete Golding: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/818567/2019/02/16/alabama-football-pete-golding-defensive-coordinator/


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0:00.0

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

0:12.0

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleague from the athletic, Ralph Rousseau.

0:16.5

No Stu Mandel.

0:17.7

I think he is on the way to Arizona to cover the game Thursday night.

0:25.4

But we have a lot to talk about. We're going to get into the mailbag a little later, Ralph.

0:30.5

But last night, a bombshell of a story came out of Seattle.

0:36.2

DeMond Williams, Jr., one of the more dynamic quarterbacks in college football,

0:40.4

had a pretty big debut season as a starter this year for the Huskies,

0:46.1

basically announced that he is entering the transfer portal.

0:50.7

And he does so four days after he had signed a contract with Washington,

0:58.2

basically saying that he is going to play for the Huskies.

1:03.5

Of all the crazy things we've heard about the transfer portal,

1:07.7

this is high up on the list, right?

1:14.6

Here's what you have, Ralph, is you have a quarterback who initially signed with arizona coming out of high school when jed fish was a coach there jed fish

1:20.0

obviously got the washington job he ended up leaving damon williams followed him up there

1:25.3

played quite a bit in 2024, was a starter in 2025.

1:31.2

Fish has been effusive about him.

1:33.5

My understanding of the deal is he's from Washington.

1:37.2

He was expected to get north of $4 million as part of this deal.

1:42.7

What's crazy about this among all the crazy things, Ralph, is one, he and Jedfish have the same

1:51.9

agent.

1:52.5

It's not just the same agency, the same agent, Doug Hendrickson.

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