Collection by Lions’ Williams won’t have football from Taylor
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Roy Williams will have a missing piece in the memorial he has planned to showcase the NFL draft class of 2004.
Williams, drafted seventh overall in ‘04 by the Lions, sent out footballs last week to be signed by the players taken with the first 10 picks of that draft.
One of the players was Sean Taylor, the Washington Redskins safety, who died Tuesday morning of a gunshot wound. Taylor was shot in what police believe was an attempted burglary of his home in suburban Miami.
Williams plans to display the footballs, helmets and jerseys of all the top 10 draft picks at his home in Texas. Taylor’s football will be missing. Washington took Taylor with the fifth pick.
“I just sent them out last week,” Williams said Thursday. “I won’t get that one back.”
