Roy Williams Has One Season To Make Himself And Jerry Jones Look Good

The Cowboys leapfrogging the Ravens late in the 1st round to select controversial wideout Dez Bryant has led some to conclude that underwhelming receiver Roy Williams has likely seen his last game playing for Dallas. ↵↵Jerry Jones has already squelched those rumors, stating that Williams will not only return, but is slated to start, at least until Bryant presumably takes his job, barring of course a miraculous boost in production in Williams’ third year with the team. Besides, there would be little point in releasing Williams outright or agreeing to a trade for low-round picks. The receiver has already gotten a $9.5 million bonus and is set to receive only another $3.45 million in base salary. If they were going to ditch him, it would have probably been before the bonus set in.↵

↵↵And there’s the consideration that Jones wants to see if he can still save face, since he’s the one who executed the monster deal that brought the receiver to Dallas. When the Cowboys acquired Williams by trade with the Lions in 2008, Dallas surrendered four draft picks, including a 1st rounder in the 2009 draft. At the time, they thought they were pairing two legit home run threats in Terrell Owens and Roy Williams. The Cowboys and Williams then immediately agreed to a five-year contract extension with $20 million in guaranteed money. Now, of course, T.O. is out of the picture and Miles Austin has emerged as the far superior asset to the passing game, whereas Williams has been dogged with drops and generally lackluster play. To make matters worse, he was at one point pinning his disappointing output on his quarterback.↵

↵↵Williams has only the Cowboys eagerness to lock him down long-term for the fact that he even has a job now. If he already had little leeway to pull the diva stuff last year, he has even less now.↵

↵↵(H/T to Pro Football Talk & The Trenches) ↵

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