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What will Tennessee basketball’s Grant Williams do? Should he stay or go?

By Caleb Calhoun

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 23: Grant Williams #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers reacts after being fouled during the second half of the game against Kansas Jayhawks at the NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament at Barclays Center on November 23, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 23: Grant Williams #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers reacts after being fouled during the second half of the game against Kansas Jayhawks at the NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament at Barclays Center on November 23, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) /
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Why Grant Williams should leave for the NBA Draft

Even with those weaknesses, Grant Williams is a already projected as a first-round pick across pretty much every NBA Mock Draft. So while he could improve on these things while playing his senior season for Tennessee basketball, he could also improve upon them while developing and making money on an NBA rookie contract.

Williams is a proven enough shooter with his free throw percentage that scouts likely already see his potential from the three. They also saw his crisp passing to know he’s somebody that they can work with.

In a game that already looks for potential more than it ever did, and with scouts as advance as they are, Williams’s potential to be a complete player with those things is very unlikely to go unnoticed by NBA executives.

As a result, it’s hard to assume William’s draft stock would improve that much, and given that he’s already a first-rounder by most projections, he’s doing very well for a player who didn’t leave after his freshman season anyway. So what would his senior season truly do for him?

All it really does is add the risk of injury. Sure, Williams can develop, but like anybody, the lure of the contract may not be worth passing up. He could see it not outweighing the reward of improving on those specific things with one more year of college. This is a big thing working in the favor of Williams deciding on Saturday to leave for the NBA Draft.

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