For its current Crucial Catch initiative to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer, the NFL has perfect spokesmen in Quinnen and Quincy Williams of the New York Jets.
The brothers — Quinnen on the defensive line, Quincy at linebacker — are all too knowledgeable about the disease. Now ambassadors for the American Cancer Society, their mother Marquischa died in 2010 from breast cancer, and they each wear a locket with a picture of her in it.
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“Mainly not just to the person going through it, but the family members watching a family member go through it,” he says. “It’s something they can’t help or control. I use my platform to let them know they need to keep the person going through it in a positive outlook, and laughing and smiling. The important part to me also is the family members.”
The Williams family — well, the brothers — set an NFL mark last Sunday. With both getting sacks against the Titans, it was the first time since the statistic became official in 1982 that brothers took down a quarterback as teammates in the same game.
Naturally, Quinnen and Quincy thought about their mom after the achievement.
“It’s a very great opportunity to play with my brother anytime, but this last time we dedicated the game to my mom, and that record was another positive,” Quincy says. “And we did it in October, when we always wear pink, a very important thing. We let people know they are not the only ones going through it.”
