Career Accolades
- CoSIDA Academic All-District (2020)
- 2022 College Sports Communicators first team Academic All-American
- Four-time Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- Tommy Vardell Award (2021)
As a Fifth Year (2022)
- Stanford Defensive Player of the Game (Week 1- Colgate)
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- 2022 College Sports Communicators first team Academic All-American
- Finished with the third-most tackles on the team (50)
- Added a forced fumble, three pass breakups and a quarterback hurry
- Recorded first career interception against Colgate (Sept. 3)
- Forced a fumble in the fourth quarter of Stanford's win at Notre Dame (Oct. 15) ... Led to Stanford's game-winning final field goal
As a Senior (2021)
- Tommy Vardell Award
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- Started all 12 games at strong safety
- Finished third on the team with 66 tackles, 44 solo
- Added a sack, 3.5 TFLs and seven pass breakups, and a forced fumble
- Has six tackles, five solo, at No. 14 USC (Sept. 11)
- Had six tackles and two pass breakups at Vanderbilt (Sept. 18)
- Made a career-high eight tackles against No. 24 UCLA, adding a pass breakup (Sept. 25)
- Had a pair of pass breakups at Washington State (Oct. 16)
- Forced a fumble at Oregon State, making seven tackles (Nov. 13)
As a Junior (2020)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
- Played in and started all six games
- Totaled 32 tackles with 1.5 tackles for loss
- Managed a team-best six tackles (four solo) at No. 23 Washington (Dec. 5)
As a Sophomore (2019)
- Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
- Played in 11 games with nine starts
- Totaled 47 tackles with one tackle for loss, one pass breakup and one fumble recovery
- Recovered a fumble vs. Northwestern
- Matched a career high with seven tackles vs. Oregon
As a Freshman (2018)
- Played in 10 games and started one
- Finished with 16 tackles (14 solo), 2.0 tackles for loss and two pass breakups
- Made collegiate debut in win at No. 20 Oregon (Sept. 22)
- One tackle and one pass breakup in win over Oregon State (Nov. 10)
- Led team with season-high seven tackles (all solo) and 2.0 tackles for loss, and one pass breakup in win at UCLA (Nov. 24)
Prior to Stanford
- Prepped at Brookwood (Ga.) under head coach Phillips Jones
- Four-star recruit by Rivals, 247Sports and PrepStar
- Nation’s 261st-best recruit by PrepStar, 342nd by 247Sports
- Nation's 26th-best cornerback by PrepStar, 32nd by 247Sports, 34th by Rivals, 89th by ESPN
- Georgia's 25th-best recruit by PrepStar, 31st by 247Sports, 35th by Rivals, 105th by ESPN
- 94 tackles, four interceptions (two returned for touchdowns), six pass breakups as a senior
- Team captain
- 2017 Georgia Sports Writers Association all-state second team
- 2017 Gwinnett Daily Post all-county first team
- 2017 all-county second team
- 2017 all-region first team
- Led team to 2017 regional title
- Also competed in track
- 4.0 grade-point average
- 2016 all-state academic
- Georgia Certificate of Merit Scholar
- Three-time Brookwood Scholar Athlete
Personal
- Full name is Kendall Tyler Williamson
- Son of Bethel and Ursula Williamson
- Has one brother, Chris
- Brother, Chris, played football at Florida and Minnesota