I think USC also benefitted from a weak PAC-12 at the moment... The defenses were pretty bad... Although, I think Mike Williams was a bit overrated, he can't deny his production... He put up some sick stats... As underwhelming as his career became, it was still better than Dwayne Jarret who I was high on... That being said Williams was a great college player and fit in the scheme... I would have liked to see how he fared against ACC and SEC defenses... With aggressive secondaries...
Sounds right. I always wondered about the quality of the competition in the PAC-12. The few times I saw USC during their heyday they looked awfully good, but they had Pete Carroll and he's taken a team with a lot of PAC-12 collegians, I think, and molded it into a very dominating NFL team. I haven't looked at the Seahawks roster in a while, but it did seem to be more heavily weighted toward west coast players.
I don't follow NFL football anymore so I can't say how the USC players end up in the NFL. Williams has not set the world on fire, and it seems a lot of USC guys have not done so, either.
When I saw Williams at USC he seemed like a big WR that found the empty spot and caught the ball. He played in a very well designed offense thanks to Norm Chow. I think it was Chow, incidentally, that totally frustrated us in Provo in the first game after the 1989 championship (opening game 1990) I think he was still OC at BYU at that time. His game plan was perfect and we couldn't stop the dinks and dunks.
I think Williams only could have played TE if we took him. Like Winslow, who I think was an oversize WR in HS in San Diego.
As far as this kid, I did not look at the video but I'm wondering if he's so ordinary, why did they offer him? You've got to think they spend a lot of time watching the film of these kids and discussing them. It's not like they're making lazy off-the-cuff decisions.
