Tyler Williams enters his fifth season with the Minnesota Vikings and fourth as vice president of player health and performance in 2026.
Introduced as the executive director of player health and performance in 2022, Williams helped the Vikings achieve a 43-25 (.632) regular-season record over the past four seasons (2022-25), including a 14-3 mark and playoff appearance in 2024, the second-most wins in team history. The team's nine-game win streak from Week 9 to Week 17 of the 2024 season tied the third-longest win streak in club history. In 2022, his first season in Minnesota, Williams was a key element in the Vikings winning the NFC North for the first time since 2017 and tying for the third-most wins (13) in a single season in team history.
In 2025, Williams and his staff helped plan and execute a 10-day international road trip to Dublin, Ireland, and London, England, as the Vikings became the first NFL team to play back-to-back games in two different countries. The Vikings player health and performance staff successfully transitioned football operations overseas, maintaining the standards of care and support players receive during a typical game week.
Under Williams' leadership, Minnesota's training staff received a resounding stamp of approval when the NFL Players Association released the results of its "free agency report cards" for all 32 teams during the 2025 offseason. The Vikings training staff, which earned an "A", ranked second out of 32 teams, as the report cited "94% of Vikings players report that they receive enough one-on-one training treatment" and "the players feel that their training staff significantly contributes to their overall success."
Prior to joining the Vikings, Williams spent 15 seasons with the Rams in both St. Louis and Los Angeles, serving as the team's director of sports science/assistant athletic trainer during their Super Bowl LVI victory.
Williams, who worked with Head Coach Kevin O'Connell from 2020-21, was named the NFC recipient of the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society's (PFATS) Tim Davey Assistant Athletic Trainer of the Year after the 2020 season. Named after longtime New York Jets assistant athletic trainer and team/NFL game operations employee Tim Davey, the award is "emblematic of the commitment, dedication and high level of integrity that Davey brought to the profession of athletic training and is representative of his level of service which he dedicated to his surrounding community."
In 2015, Williams was a member of the Rams athletic training staff that won PFATS' Ed Block NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year, an award that is voted on by the PFATS membership and recognizes one NFL athletic training staff annually for their distinguished service to their club, community, and athletic training profession.
Besides his involvement in PFATS and serving as their foundation president since 2021, Williams is also a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), certified in Functional Movement Screen (FMS-C) and Chairs the Sports Science Task Force on the NFL Research and Innovation Committee.
Prior to joining the Rams in 2007, Williams was the assistant athletic trainer at Fontbonne University in St. Louis from 2006-07. Williams holds a master's degree from California University of Pennsylvania, earning a performance enhancement specialist certification. He completed his bachelor's degree in exercise science with an emphasis in athletic training at Truman State. He and his wife, Katie, have a daughter.
