Aneyas Williams is now the running back Notre Dame is expected to lean on against Wisconsin. The junior has moved to the front of the touchdown board and is priced at -220 to score an anytime touchdown, with $330 back on a $100 bet to score the first touchdown of the game.
That surge in attention comes because Williams had been poised to lead the backfield after a strong summer camp, and the depth chart now says he will get his chance to carry the workload. For a 5-foot-10 junior who totaled 24 carries for 224 yards and five touchdowns across six games last season, the shift gives him a much larger stage in Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame than he had a year ago.
Williams is drawing the clearest scoring expectation on the board because the other names near the top do not carry the same profile. Nolan James Jr. and Kedren Young are each listed at +700 to score the first touchdown, a sign that Notre Dame’s rushing load is concentrated around Williams for this matchup. The board is built around touchdown props, and Williams sits at the center of it.
The catch is that this role change is not happening in a full backfield. Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price are out of the picture, and that leaves Williams as the player most likely to absorb the carries that follow. That is the part bettors have to weigh now: the numbers point to a heavier workload, but the depth behind him is thinner than it looked when the season began.
So the next thing that matters is simple. If Notre Dame keeps the workload where the depth chart says it should be, Williams will be the running back shaping the game from the first series on. If the carries go elsewhere, the betting board will have been pointing to a role he never fully got. For now, he is the name that defines the Notre Dame ground game against Wisconsin.
