Hokies Tailback Marshawn Williams Received Letter from Seven-Year-Old

Awesome kid sends awesome letter.

Virginia Tech Hokies running back Marshawn Williams (42) cuts past diving North Carolina Tar Heels linebacker Jeff Schoettmer (10) in the first quarter. [Michael Shroyer]

Marshawn Williams had a sensational freshman season before he tore the ACL in his right knee at Duke. Juice started in 8 of the 9 games he played, rushed for 475 yards on 124 carries (3.8 yards per attempt) and scored 4 touchdowns. A seven-year-old named Alex let Williams know what a bummer a leg injury is.

Got a letter today in my locker from a kid name Alex 7 years old made my day thank you so much

A photo posted by Marshawn Williams (@runjuice42) on

Juice had ACL surgery on 12/16/14 and is out for spring ball.

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That is seven different kinds of awesome.

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

OH! That's a jersey!

"Yeah, it do." - Mike Vick

And apparently Alex thinks juice has one hell of a thigh gap

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

You need one hell of a thigh gap if your "jersey" is that big.

Saw this earlier on his twitter. It got me right in the feels...

"Welcome to the Terror Dome." -- Corey Moore

Very cool! It's also very cool that Marshawn acknowledged the letter in a tweet. 42 seems like a great kid.

It was also be very cool if the kid read Twitter. But I doubt it.

"Yes I am going to have favorites. My favorites are high production and low maintenance players, coaches, and staff." - JMFF

Maybe an adult he knows recognized and showed the tweet to him.

This is going to be great for the ACC.

This is great! I guess it would be weird if a 33 yr old woman sent him a letter...damn

@AMB4VT

Or would it? Only one way to find out.

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago-bulls/post/_/id/21410/watch-bulls-try-to... while we're on the topic I stumbled across this yesterday, pretty adorable. A bunch of kids drew the Chicago Bulls players and had the team guess who they thought it was

Taylor, looking desperately throws it deep..HAS A MAN OPEN DANNY COALE WITH A CATCH ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE FIVE!!!!....hes still open

The image is blocked at work. Could someone copy it into a comment?

I got you
I know that feeling. Here's an imgur mirror.

Nice, glad to see he got my letter!

Gotta love it. :)

looks like the kid is team pie, er, pi.

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george
can he draw George too?

"I don't know what a Hokie is, but God is one of them." - Lee Corso

Marshawn looks like the predator in the main pic (not the drawing).

Someone please Photoshop that shit.

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente