Washington Redskins 2018 season offensive line grades
By Ian Cummings
Shawn Lauvao
Can I skip this slide?
Still no? You people are ruthless.
For some perspective to start us off, Morgan Moses and Shawn Lauvao both allowed the same amount of sacks in 2018. The difference? Moses started all sixteen games. Lauvao played four full games. Lauvao’s records will say he played five, but he tore his ACL on the very first drive of the Atlanta Falcons game.
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It was generally considered a consensus opinion, before the 2018 season, that the Redskins had made a mistake by waiting so long to address the guard position that they were forced to re-sign Shawn Lauvao. By August, however, it was clear that nothing more could be done. The Redskins made their bed. It was time to sleep in it.
A solid start from Lauvao went under the radar in 2018, but it was known that his run blocking prowess was both unsustainable and misleading, given his brutal failure as a pass blocker. Lauvao’s season-ending injury against Atlanta was a culmination of all his downfalls in one. He fell backward trying to pass block, and tore his ACL in the process, whilst allowing an unopposed sack.
After the Redskins tried to nudge Lauvao out last offseason, before ultimately crawling back to him in summer, it’s hard to see the veteran coming back. Thus, a quick memoriam of his career in Washington is warranted. He was, at times, a solid starter. But injuries and ineffectiveness too often soured his results, and 2018 was the worst case to date.