For the past four games, Chargers receiver Mike Williams was nowhere to be found.
His presence and production on the field were undoubtedly missed after collecting 31 catches for 471 yards and scoring six touchdowns through the season’s first five games.
Williams hadn’t scored a touchdown since Week 5. However, when the Bolts needed him most, he delivered with a 53-yard catch-and-run touchdown that won Los Angeles the game over the Steelers.
Mike Williams 53-yard touchdown‼️
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Williams finished the contest with five receptions on six targets.
“That was huge for this team,” Williams said. “Just to be in a hard-fought game like that coming down to the end and to get a [win,] I feel like that’s big for this team. It took the whole team on both sides, and we got it done.”
Quarterback Justin Herbert recalled postgame that he told Williams in the huddle to be ready on a play call that he believed would work well for his receiver.
It was then that Herbert identified the corner blitz, which led to a wide-open Williams.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Herbert relied on the big-bodied receiver in a crucial moment, though.
Herbert has connected with Williams for five separate go-ahead touchdowns in the fourth quarter, which is already the most by any QB-WR duo in a single season in NFL history, per ESPN’s Field Yates.
