It was a sad scene Friday night, watching as Izayia Williams walked around the football field in street clothes and his jersey as his teammates warmed up to face South Lake.

Williams, the embattled star linebacker at Tavares who has committed to FSU, is out for his entire senior season. He tore his ACL during the spring game. Initially it was not thought to be serious. He had hopes of playing this season. The knee, however, did not cooperate with the hopeful recovery process and he decided to have surgery Aug. 11.

“At the end of the summer, right before school started. … it was completely torn by then,” said Williams, the No. 3-ranked player in the Sentinel’s 2026 Central Florida Super60 . “It was real hard at first because I didn’t even know if I was gonna come back [at all], but afte

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