Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams started a trend that led to many players wearing pink to raise awareness for breast cancer this past weekend. Williams petitioned the league this past off-season to allow players to wear pink cleats. "It means something to a lot of people affected by it," Williams told Carolina Growl. "Families and the people actually affected by it. Nothing is stronger than wearing pink on the thing that keeps you going in the National Football League and that's your cleats. "Because if you don't have a firm foot in the ground you're going to slip. I made a suggestion to the league, well to Riley (Fields) and Riley took it to the league and they OK'd it." Williams has three aunts that have died of breast cancer and his mother is a breast cancer survivor.