Survivor I - Roy Williams Commentary

NOTE: this draft was completed on 7/24

Recent Stats

YR	RSH	RSHYD	RSHTD	REC	RECYD	RECTD	FPT	RANK
2004	1	1	0	54	817	8	129.8	29

Positives - Williams only started in 11 games as a rookie WR last season. He was also hobbled by a bad ankle for some of that time. Yet he still was able to put up 54/817/8 respectively. With Charles Rogers back, Mike Williams and Marcus Pollard added to the mix, Detroit should have plenty of weapons this year - so it will be hard for defenses to key on just Williams. With a sub-par defense (and many others in the NFC North) Detroit could get into a lot of shootouts which would also bode well for Williams.

Negatives - William’s success depends greatly on QB Joey Harrington. Harrington will need to be on his game early in the season for Williams to do likewise. Williams also is still only in his second NFL season and could still be considered “green” by the three year WR theory. Detroit has seemed to have had its primary RB hurt the last few seasons to some extent so a healthy Kevin Jones could possibly see more touches and cut back on the Detroit passing game although probably not much.

Draft Strategy - The logical choice for a FBG here would be to add my second RB. But at this point, all but (4) teams had at least two RBs already and all of the teams between me and my next pick already possessed at least two RBs, but those same teams had (1) WR combined. So a WR run seemed inevitable (at least to my next pick) so I succumbed to the temptation to add that third significant WR and would look to get a RB with my next pick in the 5th round. This gave me the #4, #7, and #14 projected WRs in a 3 WR league.