Would Roy Williams be better at Linebacker than Safety?

No, his size just won't work. The main thing that sets a linebacker apart from a DB is being able to take on blockers. So as great of a hitter as he is, without being able to take on a guard is a major liability. You can't tackle the ball carrier if you can't get to him. And even worse, a blocker could easily push through him and use HIM to block another player.

That's why players like Williams and Lynch cannot play linebacker. The front 7 has to be able to take on the 5 linemen + 2 blocking backs (TE & FB). After that, the SS and FS gets the tackles.

I agree with you whole heartedly, anyone can get bigger, but you cant improve speed and he is one of the slower safeties in the league-and teams know it!!!

On the other side he is a beast at the line of scrimmage. Dallas has had successful undersized LBs in the past, remember Dat Nguyen the korean nightmare! That dude was a tackling machine and his measureables pretty darn close to Roy-Roy. Williams is target in the secondary. I like Roy Williams as a safety-linebacker tweener and why not, alot of LB-DE tweeners out there. He could revolutionize the position as a safety-linebacker...they could just call his position a SACKER lol.

He could roam and play at the line on rushing downs and out in the field on passing.

In my opinion he would make a great middle linebacker. Size does play a very big part in posistion placement but raw talent and skill can overcome that. If you play him in a lot of blitzing situations and QB spys he would probably make an outstanding linebacker.

Yeah, I asked this Q a while ago, I thought He would be better as a LB, But he is small to an LB, and Not quite fast enough to be a FS, SS is probably the best place for him. He can play close to the LOS, or in the middle open feild pretty well, which seems to be his best range.

Yes he is a hard hitter and watching him gets me confused with Linebackers.

no, he is a better safety they just need to run a different defense for him to hide his flaws

No way he is to small running backs would plow him.

As a Redskins fan, I say leave him at safety. :o)