Redskins: 3 standout players from preseason Week 3 vs. Broncos

The Washington Redskins were a massive disappointment in their third preseason game against the Denver Broncos. Still, there were a couple of positive standouts from this game and they deserve to be recognized.

It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was ugly. The Redskins came out completely flat in the third preseason game. Sure, you can blame the fact that the offense was missing key skill players so they elected to run a “vanilla” system. You can write this off as a preseason game and as a growing pain for the squad. No matter how you spin it, the showing from the Redskins was poor and they executed poor fundamentals and a lack of drive throughout most of the evening. And preseason or not, that’s a bad thing.

On the defensive side of the ball, the starters and backups looked helpless and allowed numerous big gains to the Broncos early on. A particularly ugly play came on a 27-yard end around to Emmanuel Sanders that resulted in a touchdown, and no Redskins players were able to bring him down. Only Troy Apke had a chance, and he was unable to do it.

That play was emblematic of the Redskins day. Sloppy, lacking fundamentals, and generally hard to watch. It’s quite possible, if not probable, that this will be their worst performance of the season, and there were certainly a lot of duds in this game.

Still, there were some silver linings as well. We couldn’t quite find five players who stood out, but there were a few players, all on the offensive side of the ball, who showed that they had some fire and could be assets for the Redskins organization. Without further ado, here’s a look at three positives from a mostly negative game.