Trent Williams ends season-long holdout, rejoins Redskins

I guess the same could be said about TW.



But not Donald Penn. :-)


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Would you bring Penn back for one more year? I think I would, he didn't play great but he was decent and I loved his passion - he certainly showed that on the field last year.



Penn was an emergency bandaid. He did ok but could be porous. Because Moses and to a lesser extent Scherff were ALSO having trouble, he wasn’t noticed as much as he could have been. Penn’s too old and the team must move forward. Kyle Smith will draft at least 2-5 OT from the draft and UDFA to get a possible rookie starter.

The team may bring in a good but older (30-32) OT FA for a very short contract, in case the best rookie LT isn’t ready at the start of the season. I think the second and third round picks will go toward TE, WR before OT, but they’ll overcome that with numbers of picks including UDFA.


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Penn was an emergency bandaid. He did ok but could be porous. Because Moses and to a lesser extent Scherff were ALSO having trouble, he wasn’t noticed as much as he could have been. Penn’s too old and the team must move forward. Kyle Smith will draft at least 2-5 OT from the draft and UDFA to get a possible rookie starter.

The team may bring in a good but older (30-32) OT FA for a very short contract, in case the best rookie LT isn’t ready at the start of the season. I think the second and third round picks will go toward TE, WR before OT, but they’ll overcome that with numbers of picks including UDFA.


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Who would that be? According to Sportrac, there are 9 left tackles in the free agency and the top 2 - Andrew Whitworth and Anthony Castonzo are likely to resign with their teams.

Andrew Whitworth
Anthony Castonzo
Kelvin Beachum
Greg Robinson (will be suspended from NFL at some point)
Jason Peters
Chris Clark
Cedric Ogbuehi
Dakota Dozier
Cornelius Lucas

Again, I'm not saying that Penn would be great replacement if and when we trade Williams away but I think he might be the best choice out of all available tackles. Peters is a good player but unreliable, he had numerous of injuries that forced him to miss games.

Who would that be? According to Sportrac, there are 9 left tackles in the free agency and the top 2 - Andrew Whitworth and Anthony Castonzo are likely to resign with their teams.

Andrew Whitworth
Anthony Castonzo
Kelvin Beachum
Greg Robinson (will be suspended from NFL at some point)
Jason Peters
Chris Clark
Cedric Ogbuehi
Dakota Dozier
Cornelius Lucas

Again, I'm not saying that Penn would be great replacement if and when we trade Williams away but I think he might be the best choice out of all available tackles. Peters is a good player but unreliable, he had numerous of injuries that forced him to miss games.

He got caught with a hay bale sized bunch of weed, pretty sure he will spend some time in jail, an NFL suspension is the least of his worries. I don't get some of the situations these players get into. The dude had a $7 mil one year deal and he was running with drug smugglers.

Obviously aside from Robinson and Peters, would any of those guys be equivalent to/even just a small upgrade over Penn, and have salary in the same range or less? Why stick with the band aid for one more year when you could at least get an equivalent younger guys and possibly cheaper too?

LT - I think the surest way is to draft your own in the first maybe second round, if you want an anchor for the next 8 years or so. A large percent of the top tier LTs are 1-2 round picks.

FA it seems you can get an aging vet as a 1 year stop gap. Maybe you get lucky like the Rams when they signed a 35 year old Whitworth in FA in 2017 for 3/66M ... and hes been a stud for them, played in like 47 of 48 games. Now hes 38 and they have his replacement, a 3R pick from a few years ago.

Tough call for the Rams, to turn that offense over to a relative untested LT .. but Whit is 38 and they have cap ramifications.

https://redskinswire.usatoday.com/2020/03/12/redskins-interested-in-jack-conklin/

https://redskinswire.usatoday.com/2020/03/12/redskins-interested-in-jack-conklin/

The Skins are after Conklin? What a pleasant surprise!

That sounds like pure journalistic speculation, I thought Conklin was a RT anyway, and not a great one, apparently always needed help in pass protection .... there are two things about free agency, no FA OL is cheap, and very few are actually any good.

The Skins are after Conklin? What a pleasant surprise!

Dang, Id be all for Conklin. A young solid T, the only issue would be his transition for RT to LT .. im guessing he perhaps played LT when Lewan was suspended for PEDs.

Conklins do not hit FA very often.