Jermaine Williams again will travel to Denver this weekend to cut his son’s hair.

This time it will be in a hotel room.

Jermaine is the father of running back Javonte Williams, who played for the Broncos from 2021-24 and is now with Dallas. Williams, the NFL’s second-leading rusher, will be back in Denver for the Cowboys’ game Sunday at Empower Field at Mile High.

“I’ll get there Saturday morning and I’ll give him a game hair cut and I’ll leave Monday morning,’’ Jermaine told The Denver Gazette from his home in Wilmington, N.C. “I cut his hair before every game.”

Jermaine is a barber who owns “Pookie Kutz” in Wilmington. He closes the shop to travel to each one of his son’s games. After previously cutting his son’s hair at his home in Denver, he now will do so at the Cowboys’ hotel.

Joining Jermaine at Sunday’s game will be his wife and Williams’ mother Shekemia, Williams’ sister Ryleigh, his grandmother Roberta and aunt Cynthia. They will watch one of the NFL’s hottest running backs.

After being a second-round pick out of North Carolina in 2021, Williams rushed for 903 yards as a Broncos rookie and appeared headed for stardom. But he suffered a serious right knee injury against the Las Vegas Raiders on Oct. 2, 2022, that included tears to his ACL and LCL and he missed the rest of the season.

Williams never fully regained his form with Denver, rushing for 774 yards while averaging just 3.6 per carry in 2023 and for 513 yards while averaging just 3.7 an attempt last season. When he became a free agent last March, the Broncos did not show a great deal of interest in re-signing him.

Williams then signed a one-year, $3 million contract with the Cowboys. In the first seven games, he has rushed for 592 yards while averaging 5.3 per carry and scored seven touchdowns, six on the ground and one on a reception.

“Just knowing my son, he’s going to give them everything he can give them,’’ Jermaine said when asked if he will have revenge on his mind Sunday. “Knowing my son, there probably will be (something extra).”

Speaking to reporters this week at the Cowboys’ training facility in Frisco, Texas, Williams downplayed his return to Denver.

“I’m just going to go out there and play my game and do what I got to do and try to make plays for my teammates,’’ he said.

Javonte Williams told The Denver Gazette late last season he wanted to re-sign with the Broncos as a free agent and his father said this week his son continued to want to return. However, when free agency arrived in March, the Broncos were focused on selecting a running back in the draft and they took RJ Harvey out of Central Florida the following month in the second round. They then signed free agent J.K. Dobbins in June, and Dobbins is seventh in the NFL in rushing with 523 yards while averaging 5.0 per carry.

“I feel it was kind of mutual,’’ Williams told reporters about his departure from Denver. “(The Broncos) wanted to go a different route. I felt like the Cowboys wanted me, so that’s where I wanted to be at.”

Three years after suffering his injury, Williams is all the way back and more. He is on pace to rush for more than 1,400 yards this season and his seven touchdowns have tied him with wide receiver Bob Hayes in 1965 and running back Herschel Walker in 1986 for the most scored by a player in his first seven games with the Cowboys.

“I feel like I’m the same player I was last year,’’ Williams said. “I felt like just mentally I feel like I’m on a different level, understanding the plays and things like that.”

Williams last year, though, often struggled running the ball. He had a three-game stretch late last season in which he carried 18 times for 14 yards, including a Week 12 game at Las Vegas in which he had eight attempts for minus-2 yards.

“I’m very excited to see how he’s doing (now),’’ said his father. “I knew it was there. It was just a matter of him getting it in his mind that it was there and bringing it back to his old self. … It was a kind of an uphill battle, I’m not going to lie. He was pretty much second guessing himself and I was telling him it’s there and you’ve got to just go do what you’ve been doing to get you where you’re at. It’s easier for me tell him on the sidelines looking at the game, but it’s something that he had to get mentally himself and I think he’s there now.”

Indeed Williams is.

“I’m so happy for him,’’ said outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper, who also was taken in the 2021 draft and in his fifth Denver season. “It’s just been rough dealing with injuries and stuff. He had a breakout year with us, and then his career wasn’t going the way he wanted it to (go). But he looks perfect in Dallas. He’s balling out. He’s doing his thing.”

Broncos coach Sean Payton called Williams a “terrific guy, terrific player” and said he’s “proud of him.” So is defensive lineman Zach Allen, who the previous two seasons had a locker next to Williams’.

“We became really close,’’ Allen said. “The fact he’s having success, especially with all the adversity he had to go through with the knee and all that, is awesome. He’s a hell of a player but he’s an even better person.”

Williams told reporters he has been in contact this week with several former Denver teammates but didn’t name them. He said at least two want to swap jerseys after the game and that he “might play, rock, paper, scissors or something” to see who gets the one he wears Sunday.

Jermaine Williams said he and family members are “very excited” to see Williams take the field again at Empower Field. His father previously had seen all but one game his son played with the Broncos.

“I’ve only missed three games since he was 6 years old and playing in Pop Warner,’’ Jermaine said. “I missed two in college because of COVID (restrictions) and I missed the game, believe it or not, when he played the Cowboys when he was with Denver because we had some family stuff going on.”

That was a 30-16 win by the Broncos at Dallas on Nov. 7, 2021, when Williams didn’t get a pre-game haircut from his father. But he did just fine, rushing for 111 yards on 17 carries.

Williams will get his pre-game trim Saturday from his father, who has been cutting hair since 1998. Pookie Kutz comes from Jermaine’s longtime nickname of “Pookie.” But after Javonte was born, Jermaine Williams mostly has been known as “Big Pookie” and his son as “Little Pookie.”