Mike Williams, a former NFL wide receiver who suffered serious injuries in a workplace construction accident earlier this month, was reportedly breathing on his own after he was removed from life support.

Williams remained in the intensive care unit of a Tampa, Florida-area hospital, according to the Tampa Bay Times on Saturday. Williams’ agent Hadley Engelhard and the mother of his daughter, Tierney Lyle, told the outlet there had been no change in his condition.

A GoFundMe linked to Williams’ father said the player had had a "major accident" at work last Friday. The page said a steel beam "fell on his head causing a massive head injury" and that there was swelling on his brain and swelling on his spinal cord that was ruptured." 

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The injuries resulted in Williams being paralyzed in his right arm and from the waist down.

Williams passed out and "never regained consciousness," according to the GoFundMe. He was placed into a coma on Sunday.

Mary Rosenthal, the mother of the 36-year-old former player, told WIVB-TV that the family needed a "Hail Mary." She said he was taken off the ventilator on Friday.

"He said, if this ever happens to me, to pull my plug because I don’t want to live like that," Rosenthal said. "Those are his wishes. When he was a football player, he had already signed the papers."

Williams, a Buffalo native, attended Syracuse University. As a true freshman in 2006, he led the team with 461 receiving yards. He was an all-Big East selection the following season but was suspended for the 2008 season for academic reasons.

In seven games in 2009, he caught 49 balls for 746 yards and seven touchdowns but quit the team due to a possible suspension after he violated team rules following a car accident.

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Nonetheless, he was a fourth-round selection by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2010 NFL Draft, and he impressed quickly.

In his rookie season, he led the team with 964 receiving yards, and his 65 receptions were one shy of tying the team lead. He also scored 11 times, the most on the team. His impressive campaign was good for a second-place honor for Offensive Rookie of the Year behind St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford.

The Bucs signed him to an extension worth close to $40 million before the 2013 campaign, but he played in just six games that year and was then traded to his hometown Buffalo Bills, where he spent one season.

In 2015, Williams was supposed to be suspended for the first six games of the season, but he remained a free agent throughout the year.

He was on the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad in 2016.

Williams' 20 touchdowns at Syracuse are tied for the second-most in school history, along with Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison.

In his professional career, he totaled 223 receptions for 3,089 yards and 26 touchdowns.

Fox News' Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

The Chicago Bears are entering the 2023 NFL season following a tumultuous run under first-year head coach Matt Eberflus that saw the organization finish last in the NFC North with a 3-14 record. 

Still, wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown, who is entering his second year in Chicago, believes that the Bears are on the "verge" of turning things around.

St. Brown, who played three years with the Green Bay Packers before signing with Chicago in 2022, spoke to Fox News Digital about the potential of the Bears’ offense, which he said played a large role in his signing a contract extension during the offseason. 

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"Obviously, we didn't have a great year last year, but I really liked the organization," St. Brown said. 

"I like my coaches, like my teammates. And even though we had a bad year, I can see that we're on the verge of having a great team and having a great season. I knew that the front office and the coaches will get together and turn the season around for this year, and I can already see it happening in practice and the preseason games – that we are going to be a much better team than we were last year."

He continued: "I kind of foresaw that coming, and I felt comfortable, and I felt like they wanted me. They like me, so I wanted to stay." 

The Bears have looked to revamp their offense this season, which included the addition of former Carolina Panthers wideout D.J. Moore. 

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"D.J. is a great add to the room," St. Brown told Fox News Digital. "He's one of the better receivers in the NFL, so he's a great addition – that plus Justin Fields being in his second year in this offense (under offensive coordinator Luke Getsy). . . . Second year in the offense knowing the scheme better, so we can play faster and just add new things."

St. Brown praised Getsy’s coaching style – the two were previously together in Green Bay when Getsy served as the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator. 

"He's a great guy. I would say that every player likes him a lot. He's easy to talk to, he's easy to come up to if you have suggestions or to talk to him as a man. So that's always good to have an open line of communication with a coach or office coordinator."

He continued: "He's just a smart dude. He played football and played quarterback. He's been coaching quarterbacks, and he knows the offense inside and out, and he adds his own flavor to it."

St. Brown also spoke about his chemistry with Fields – the two connected on an 18-yard pass for St. Brown’s first touchdown with the Bears in Chicago’s Week 1 opener against the San Francisco 49ers last season. 

"There's no secret sauce to chemistry," he told Fox News Digital. "The only way chemistry works is you got to put the work in and got to do it in practice, you got to talk about it, be good friends off the field so you can know how to communicate and stuff like that. So I think just the longer we are with the quarterback, the better the chemistry gets." 

St. Brown spoke to Fox News Digital on behalf of Betterguards, which recently launched its adaptive injury-prevention technology in the NFL. St. Brown is a global ambassador of the brand after suffering his own ankle injury in 2019, which ruled him out for the season.