Garrett Williams is perfectly content with his role.

And why not? Three months ago, he didn’t really expect to have one this season.

The presence of Stanton Seckinger, Jordan Leggett, Jay Jay McCullough, Milan Richard, Cannon Smith and D.J. Greenlee left Williams thinking that he was headed for a redshirt in 2015. That’s a big reason why Williams nixed his plans to start his Clemson career in January.

Now, instead of playing tight end for the scout team, he’s serving mostly as a lead blocker in the run game and chipping in as a protector for Deshaun Watson on passing plays.

“Throughout the whole process, I trusted the coaches. If they wanted to redshirt me, I would have been OK with that, but my mentality was to come in and try to play,” Williams said. “I was going to come in and just do my best, try to get the plays down and execute as well as I could, so I’m glad that they liked what they saw. I’m happy to be playing.”

Last week, Williams logged 14 snaps, but didn’t have a reception.

“I love blocking. I love it, so going out there and being able to make some blocks on Saturday and be out there a little bit was really fun,” he said.

The Clemson offense and role he has in it this season are a change of pace for Williams, who was a running back at The First Academy in Orlando. As a senior, Williams had 1,229 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns with 15 catches for 256 yards and a touchdown.

But Williams did plenty of blocking during his high school career, so he has experience when it comes to playing without the ball.

Lobbying for touches isn’t on his list of priorities. He’s OK with not touching the football on Saturdays. After all, he’s just one game into his career, and there are plenty of other days during the week that he catches passes.

“I’ll try to do it everyday in practice, but we’ll see how it comes down the road,” Williams said.

“Jordan’s doing an incredible job at receiving, so I’ll just try to do my role for now.”