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By Ron Borges, Globe Staff, 4/11/2004
Roy Williams is back where he belongs. When the college football season began last August, the fleet Texas wide receiver was considered by many NFL scouts to be the most talented player in the nation, and by nearly every team to be the leading receiver. Nothing he did last season altered those impressions, but by the combine in February, all the talk centered around underclassmen Larry Fitzgerald of Pitt and Mike Williams of Southern Cal, who have passed Williams by on many draft lists.
How this could happen to a 6-foot-2 1/2-inch, 212-pound guy with soft hands, 4.4 speed in the 40 (that at least one team had at 4.35 in his Pro Day workout last month), and a nearly 40-inch vertical leap is difficult to fathom unless you are an experienced NFL scout who has seen this kind of foolishness before.
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Roy Williams is back where he belongs. When the college football season began last August, the fleet Texas wide receiver was considered by many NFL scouts to be the most talented player in the nation, and by nearly every team to be the leading receiver. Nothing he did last season altered those impressions, but by the combine in February, all the talk centered around underclassmen Larry Fitzgerald of Pitt and Mike Williams of Southern Cal, who have passed Williams by on many draft lists.
How this could happen to a 6-foot-2 1/2-inch, 212-pound guy with soft hands, 4.4 speed in the 40 (that at least one team had at 4.35 in his Pro Day workout last month), and a nearly 40-inch vertical leap is difficult to fathom unless you are an experienced NFL scout who has seen this kind of foolishness before.
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