Player Dossier

2022-2025

Northern Illinois

Roy Williams

DE • 6'6" • 257 lbs • Crestwood, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Roy Williams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.4 disruption score.

Usage Score

12.4

Efficiency

23.4

Consistency

12.5

Season Value

15.4

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
6
Program Path
Northern Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Roy Williams, DE. Best season Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Roy Williams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.4 disruption score.

Roy Williams played DE for Northern Illinois. Across 4 tracked seasons, Roy Williams recorded 96 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Northern Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Northern Illinois paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 23.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ohio

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

23.4

Usage

12.4

Consistency

12.5

Best Game by takeover score

Ball State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Unknown: 2. Maryland: 0. Mississippi State: 0. San Diego State: 0. Miami (OH): 0. Eastern Michigan: 1. Ohio: 2. Ball State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Unknown: 2 by 28.3. Maryland: 4 by 16.7. Mississippi State: 5 by 20.8. San Diego State: 6 by 25. Miami (OH): 2 by 8.3. Eastern Michigan: 9 by 47.5. Ohio: 3 by 32.5. Ball State: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Losses0.5 · Games = 6
First Half0.5 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs First Half
All Games0.6 · Games = 8

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ohio

Best efficiency game

47.5 vs Eastern Michigan

Result
Sat 10/25vs Ball StateW 21-721000
Sat 10/18@ OhioL 21-4831110
Sat 10/11@ Eastern MichiganL 10-1693100
Sat 10/4vs Miami (OH)L 14-2522000
Sat 9/27vs San Diego StateL 3-663000
Sat 9/20@ Mississippi StateL 10-3851000
Fri 9/5@ MarylandL 9-2044000
Sat 8/30vs Unknown22110

Career Arc

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    Northern Illinois

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

202220232023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois04.20.5
2023 PostseasonNorthern Illinois1015.4810
2023 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois1015.480
2024 PostseasonNorthern Illinois1422.98.74
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois1422.98.70
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois523.412.4-9

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Ohio

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.

#2

Massachusetts

3

Primary metric

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 58 takeover score.

#3

Boston College

3

Primary metric

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 57.8 takeover score.

#4

Bowling Green

3

Primary metric

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 48.8 takeover score.

#5

Unknown

2

Primary metric

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.5 usage

34.9

#2

2023 Postseason · Northern Illinois

21.7

10 primary · 15.4 efficiency · 8 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

21.7

10 primary · 15.4 efficiency · 8 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2021 · Rating 0.823

Greenfield · Milwaukee, WI

Committed To
Northern Illinois
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Career Facts

1

Career teams

6

Seasons tracked

96

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 6 tracked seasons, 35 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.