You're underselling Williams who made two huge plays in the playoffs last year, including one against Detroit that may have saved our asses at the end of the 1st half, and overselling what Cobb and Nelson did to this point in Williams' career.
Good points.
After being behind Jennings and Driver, Nelson has been a machine for four years. Cobb flashed his speed and explosiveness right away and blew up as a WR his second year.
We can only hope Williams follows suit.
In 2014 he had that great catch in Seattle and then disappeared from an offense that really needed him. He finally showed up again in the Indy game which was a free-for-all, but I think the Seahawks showed the rest of the league how to shut him down and it worked.
Williams' first two seasons are almost identical with no trend down or up-- no better or worse than good. His 16.8 Y/C average on its own is excellent, but he disappears too often. He converts 56% of targeted passes compared with about 71% and 76% from Nelson and Cobb in their second seasons.
...But he is right there with them in yards per target, so there's hope.
Hope that a full offseason with Romo shores up his short and intermediate routes and gets more of those targets converted. I believe in Williams' case a higher conversion rate will lead to even more targets, and not the other way around.
The Lions game was gigantic for both him (and Demarcus Lawrence), but again he converted just half his targets in that game. We need both improvement and greater consistency.
