Ahh, the rumors just continue on and on about Roy Williams possibly being traded away. If you were Lions GM, would you trade Roy Williams?
Personally, I don’t care either way. He hasn’t stood out to me as a GREAT wide receiver (yet). He’s good, but not yet great. But he’s still very young and I still feel he shows a lot of promise. It’s all just a gamble, anyways, if you think about it. If you trade Roy away, you still have 2 serviceable wide receivers in Mike Furrey and Shawn McDonald, as well as a potential great in Calvin Johnson. But if you were to keep Roy, he is not only another threat to defenses all around the league, but a nice insurance policy in case (God forbid) one of the other three receivers become injured this upcoming season. And we know the Lions curse of the injury. Anything is possible.
The scenario is 1 first round pick at least. But we all know who gets to make that first round pick. The moustache himself: Matthew George Millen. So there’s already a 90-95% chance of failure right there. But what about that 5-10% chance he could make a good pick, thus filling a hole the Lions have?
Now, I know you can’t run a team and make moves based on chances and what-ifs. But again, we’re talking Matt Millen here. I guarantee the “What if Roy doesn’t want to re-sign after the end of the season?” thought is circling through his empty head. Would he dare to slap the Franchise tag on a player who’s possibly a bomb waiting to explode in the Lions locker room?
What would you do? Keep him? Trade him to get value for him? What about wait and trade him before the deadline during the upcoming season?
