News: Connor Williams Taking Reps at Center

[America's Cowboy]

As he leaves in free agency after this season…

$100 bucks says Connor Williams will be here next year. Wanna bet?

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Throughout the offseason for the Cowboys, starting Guard Connor Williams has been getting some looks at center. What does this mean for projected starter Tyler Biadasz and could a change be brewing at the position for 2021?

Williams saw reps at center came during the spring practices and again during these first few days of training camp. But according to Mike McCarthy, Connor’s only being evaluated as a potential backup.

https://insidethestar.com/connor-wi...I8Vlg3CxKQXsatCa5Jl4WyI6ZGswXip_icMb4W52D8AD4

too early for him to take snaps at center, unless the plan is to have him as back up center and when biadasz is taking a break....

 

[JoeKing]

The misinformation being posted here is ridiculous. I thought there was a forum rule to discourage this, but I guess not.

 

[Stash]

$100 bucks says Connor Williams will be here next year. Wanna bet?

Gladly. Let’s get a third party to make sure it’s a legitimate bet.

Anyone want to step forward to ‘officiate’ this bet?

 

[john van brocklin]

That leads me to believe they plan to go light on gameday with OL, or go 2 OT and swing OG with CWill being the center if needed.

Like flexibility

 

[conner01]

I don’t believe this is the first camp he’s taken snaps at center

 

[quickccc]

Hopefully this means Conner Williams isn't starting.....

It still means Williams is starting at LG, but should anything happens to starting center Tyler Biadasz, then Williams moves over to replacement center fill in, while either McGovern or Brandon Knight takes over as the fill in replacement for Williams at LG.

 

[quickccc]

I've heard media saying dont rule out a looney return as a last resort but given two matters as to we won't know if another NFL team will be interested in looney in due time as well,

And we won't know what kind of football shape looney will be come at the end of camp.
And some of those kind of big men have to stay on top of their conditioning early on

 

[Verdict]

Don't sleep on Farniok at center.

 

[Creeper]

This is not a big deal. The Cowboys need a backup center and they are trying Williams out to see if he can do it. They need depth at the position.

 

[OmerV]

This is a joke. Conner Williams is not competing with Tyler Biadasz for the starting Center position. Williams is the starting left guard. Conner is getting reps at Training Camp because Biadasz can't possibly make all the snaps just like Dak can't make all the passes.

Is it possible McGovern could be thought of as real competition for Williams at LG?

 

[OmerV]

This is not a big deal. The Cowboys need a backup center and they are trying Williams out to see if he can do it. They need depth at the position.

But typically they don't look to a starter at one position to be the backup because if needed it means they would have to use backups at 2 positions instead of 1.

 

[WoodysGirl]

 

[quickccc]

Is it possible McGovern could be thought of as real competition for Williams at LG?

i'd have to see it to believe it.
i merely took the Williams to center news as injury emergency purposes.
Should Tyler get dinged, then Williams moves over to center, while a McGovern or Knight fills in at LG.

One thought definitely came to my mind, is OL coach Joe Philibin does not care to try McGovern at center at all.

And it maybe just me, but i really believe that if not for the massive injury hits
and RT struggles that forced Martin outside, McGovern would've never hit the playing field under Philibin.
That's just the impression i got last year.

 

[Sydla]

Frankly it probably says more about McGovern than anything else. Really disappointed that McGovern hasn't been able to lock down a starting spot. I thought he was going to be a stud.

 

[Stash]

i'd have to see it to believe it.
i merely took the Williams to center news as injury emergency purposes.
Should Tyler get dinged, then Williams moves over to center, while a McGovern or Knight fills in at LG.

One thought definitely came to my mind, is OL coach Joe Philibin does not care to try McGovern at center at all.

And it maybe just me, but i really believe that if not for the massive injury hits
and RT struggles that forced Martin outside, McGovern would've never hit the playing field under Philibin.
That's just the impression i got last year.

If so, I consider that a ding against Philbin because McGovern did a good job when given the opportunity.

 

[Doomsday101]

Throughout the offseason for the Cowboys, starting Guard Connor Williams has been getting some looks at center. What does this mean for projected starter Tyler Biadasz and could a change be brewing at the position for 2021?

Williams saw reps at center came during the spring practices and again during these first few days of training camp. But according to Mike McCarthy, Connor’s only being evaluated as a potential backup.

https://insidethestar.com/connor-wi...I8Vlg3CxKQXsatCa5Jl4WyI6ZGswXip_icMb4W52D8AD4

Cowboys will need to have someone ready to backup at Center, they seem unlikely to resign Looney so someone has to get reps to backup Biadasz

 

[Tussinman]

As he leaves in free agency after this season…

Yeah I think Connor will demand just high enough of a price to where cowboys have to let him walk, especially since they already have 3 of their o-line starters on high dollar deals (I don't think they add a 4th deal, especially with Williams injury history).

$100 bucks says Connor Williams will be here next year. Wanna bet?

I wouldn't make that bet. I could see him being Ron Leary 2.0 (Team overpays in free agency for an injury prone guard mostly because the guard played for a well known team and a well known o-line unit)

 

[Stash]

Yeah I think Connor will demand just high enough of a price to where cowboys have to let him walk, especially since they already have 3 of their o-line starters on high dollar deals (I don't think they add a 4th deal, especially with Williams injury history).

That’s why I made that $100 bet. It’s not a knock on Williams, it’s a salary cap issue and simply not being able to afford a bunch of big contracts. Williams will get paid, it just won’t be here.

 

[quickccc]

i couldn't help but wonder what the OL unit and try out manuevers would have been like under ex-OL coach Marc Columbo now instead of Philibin. .
Instead of Williams being tried as the emergency center, would Columbo have already been trying Williams out as an emergency backup tackle ?
A position Wiliams excelled at as a starting OT at Texas. .