UCLA Bruins · S RoomS

#7 Aaron Williams

Class  RS JR/TRFrom  Louisville (transfer)Ht / Wt  6'1" · 183 lbHometown  Moreno Valley, CA · St. John Bosco HS

Depth-chart placement

Current role

FS3

Placement

Depth

Room

Safety

Experience

4-JR

Last change

Updated 2026-07-29

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S room context

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Aaron Williams holds the FS · Depth spot in UCLA Bruins’s safety room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

SS · StarterCole MartinStarter

FS · StarterTao JohnsonStarter

NB · StarterDJ BarksdaleStarter

SS · BackupTa'Shawn JamesBackup

FS · BackupMalik HartfordBackup

FS · DepthAaron WilliamsDepth

Transfer history

2026Louisville→UCLA Bruins

Production

2025 season

Latest season · 2025

Tackles

Background & career

Aaron Williams is a free safety from Moreno Valley, California, who transferred to UCLA after two seasons at Louisville. A consensus four-star recruit in the 2023 class, Williams made his collegiate debut at Boston College in 2024, recording one tackle. He appeared in four games that season before joining the Bruins for the 2025 campaign. In 2025, Williams played in all 12 games and tallied 10 tackles (7 solo), including a career-high five tackles against USC in the season finale on November 29, when he made his first career start. Across 16 college games, he has accumulated 11 tackles.

Louisville2023 – 2024

UCLA2025 — present

Previous schoolLouisvilleRecruiting4-star · No. 189 nationalOriginMoreno Valley, CA · St. John Bosco HS