Miami/Texas A&M game huge for five-star recruit

Hykeem Williams’ commitment date is less than a week away and he still hasn’t quite made up his mind about where he’ll be playing college football.

One final trip to Texas, he admitted Wednesday, could play a role.

“I’ve visited enough, I’ve seen enough — well, not yet,” the five-star wide receiver said after finishing up practice at Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale. “This weekend should be good.”

On Thursday, Williams will make his college choice in a ceremony at Stranahan, but first is a trip to College Station on Saturday to watch Texas A&M host the Miami Hurricanes.

It’s an important trip for a few reasons. Both Miami and Texas A&M are in his top six — along with Florida State, Pittsburgh, Georgia and Alabama

— and he has never been to a game at Kyle Field or watched coach Mario Cristobal’s Hurricanes live in action.

For both teams, it will be a chance for a final impression, and more than half of his final six is getting a shot to make one in the final few weeks before he makes an oral commitment.

Last weekend, Williams trekked up Pittsburgh to watch the Panthers lose a Top 25 showdown with Tennessee. The weekend before, he traveled to New Orleans to watch Florida State beat LSU in the Caesars Superdome. This weekend, he will get a chance to see two more and then he will come back home to Florida, sit down with his family and make a decision.

For the Aggies, he loves the unique collegetown feel and Texas

A&M coach Jimbo Fisher’s “great résumé with receivers my size.”

The Seminoles made an impression with their win in Louisiana and the way “their culture just filled the dome,” he said. “It was overpowering from in and out.”

What about Georgia and Alabama? For those, the appeal is obvious.

“Those are two of the top schools in college football,” Williams said. “You can’t put it no other way.”

As excited as he is to watch an Aggies home game, Williams is even more interested to see what the Hurricanes look like.

“Them, especially,” he said, “just because everyone knows how they rebuilt coaches, how everything’s changed. Just seeing them in action’s going to be good.”

Cristobal, rather than offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, is heading up this recruitment himself, and Williams said his involvement stands out.

“Of course! He makes the most money there. He runs everything.