Wide receiver Roy Williams is returning to Texas as the newest member of the the Dallas Cowboys.
Williams, 26, was traded Tuesday with a seventh-round draft pick from the Detroit Lions to the Dallas Cowboys for a first-, third- and sixth-round picks.
"I'm more happy to be a Dallas Cowboy than when I got my first bike," said Williams, an Odessa native who played college football at the University of Texas.
"We felt like right now that was the best thing for us to do," Lions general manager Martin Mayhew said. "It gives us something for the future.
"You're looking at the possibility of having five of the first hundred picks [in 2009). It was a pragmatic business decision."
Williams has caught 17 passes for 232 yards and one touchdown in four games this season, his fifth in the NFL.
The former Pro Bowler has totalled 260 receptions for 3,861 yards and 29 touchdowns since he was drafted seventh overall by Detroit in 2004.
"We got two guys [Williams and Terrell Owens] out there that can really run," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "They're big but, as you know, both of them can really make spectacular catches."
"I have never had an older wide receiver to show me the way," Williams said of Owens, 34. "And going from 0-5 to 4-2, you cannot ask for anything better than that."
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