Trent Williams holding out for new deal

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Originally Posted by Warthog

You are exactly right, the team wouldn’t move on from Cousins, nor pay him what he wanted, which ended up being the worst scenario.

I don’t see how the Redskins are in the driver seat with TW. Trent has made it abundantly clear he is very happy to sit out the season to make his point by being traded. The team can get a good or very good deal before the first game of the season, IF they do something. But I’ll can also see them taking the worst path, as with Cousins, by not biting the bullet and getting on with it. They can use the PR line, “waiting for a better deal” or “we know Trent will come back to us”. Or both at the same time, which is what they are doing now.

Denying any trade rumors and hoping to “force” TW to come back to the field as a Redskin. This will be the worst course of action and frankly, about what I’d suspect from Snyder and BA.


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The Redskins have until the trade deadline to deal Williams. You never know if there is a team out there who is willing to pay the price. I'm sure there will be one team that's willing to do it, especially if it means helping them in a playoff run.

I could be completely wrong on this, but if Trent doesn't play this year, that cap space can be carried over to the next year, so that's a plus for the team IMO (again, I could be completely wrong on this).

You could make the case that once the trade deadline happens, the team loses leverage, but I still think the 2020 NFL draft would be the absolute deadline to trade Williams. If it goes that far.

Finally, I a lot of people thought this team was going to be bad, so I don't know how a bad season goes in favor of Williams. Even if the team goes a mediocre 8-8, that won't help TW in his situation.

As I said, I'm fine with the team sitting and waiting.