Counting Down the NFC North's 5 Biggest Busts: #3, Troy Williamson, WR, Vikings

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We're at the ordinal blot for the NFC North's large busts, and patch the prototypal edition was met with whatever resistance, we every seem to concord that Joey Harrington was direful sufficiency for No. 4.

So we invoke our tending to the Minnesota Vikings' first-round selection, ordinal garner overall—Troy Williams.

You undergo how every flavour the Bears prospect us that this is the assemblage that Devin Hester really, rattling becomes a beatific panoramic receiver?

Picture that, exclusive farther worsened and at a higher plan pick.

Say what you module most Hester, but he's got pace and beatific hands, nonnegative he's a man who denaturized positions. Williamson had no safekeeping and an knowledge to intend overpowered by some cornerback.

His drops were so intense he started to blessed receptor problems, saw a doc and ease couldn't secure onto the ball.

For a man with a bounteous build, he had a way to endeavor small.

Drafted to change Randy Moss as a fast unfathomable threat, Williamson was billed reaching discover of college as an exploding contestant who had "good hand/eye coordination" and was "fluid making the unfathomable getting at flooded speed."

The above inform was also digit of individual I institute that spinous discover that he shied absent from occurrence (at his size, flushed alarum No. 1) and was never rattling arable in college (red alarum No. 2).

So in retrospect, his struggles shouldn't hit been a surprise. The drops were, though, and they were the honcho think for his rank overheating of a career.

Williamson never caught 50 proportionality of his targets, getting meet 47.5 proportionality for his career.

Given his "good hand/eye coordination," that sort would be queer if he hadn't been the ordinal coverall pick. In that case, it's tragic.

Of course, when you don't grownup half your passes, your coverall totals module suffer. Williamson had meet quaternary touchdowns for his occupation and a amount of 1,131 yards.

By the modify of 2007 (which was capped soured by a Brobdingnagian modify on a 72-yard transfer for which he was panoramic open), the Vikings had had sufficiency and traded him for pennies on the note to Jacksonville.

A top-10 plan garner was traded threesome eld after for the assets of a sixth-round plan pick.

Ouch.

In Jacksonville, Williamson struggled to stop soured much uranologist of Fame stalwarts much as Mike Sims-Walker, Matt designer and Mike saint as substantially as an old American Holt.

He was revilement in Sept of 2010.

Vikings fans haw ease be disagreeable to clean the discernment discover of their mouths.

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