Third time’s a…down the drain. That’s the only real way to describe it. Mike Williams was cut today from his third team in as many years. Not the career you might expect from the tenth overall pick in 2005. Although the star USC receiver dropped thirty pounds (down 242 from 272) and demonstrated some improvement in practice, he just couldn’t make the cut. Titans coach Jeff Fisher announced Williams’ drop from the team earlier today:

I just wasn’t seeing the production and when you get in a situation where you don’t see the production and you have a young group of receivers that are emerging, I felt like it was in the best interest to let him go at this point. Hopefully Mike can hook on someplace else…[Williams] still has potential, hopefully he’ll realize it someplace else.

I don’t know if anyone can really be surprised by this news. After attending USC at the same time as Williams, I have been hopeful that his pro-career would mirror his collegiate success. But now it seems that his greatest accomplishments are fading further and further behind him. So you Trojan faithful, let’s just pretend Williams declared for the ’04 draft and disappeared into the sunset. Let’s remember him for the 2002 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year award, the 2003 Consensus First-team All-American and the CBS National Player of the Year. Let’s remember him for the last game he ever played, the 2004 Rosebowl victory over Michigan and the AP national championship.