Report: Dwayne Haskins suffered high ankle sprain vs. Giants

The Washington Redskins lost rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins to an ankle injury in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants. Thankfully, it looks like the injury was just a sprain.

Dwayne Haskins played one of the best first halves of his career to date against the New York Giants. Unfortunately, he didn’t last long after halftime.

On the Redskins first drive of the second half, Haskins was sacked by two members of the Giants and was bent backward in an awkward fashion. He had trouble getting up at the end of the play and stayed down. Eventually, he would walk off the field and head toward the locker room before hitching a ride with the cart.

The ankle injury that Haskins suffered deemed him questionable to return and the team held him out of the game for precautionary reasons.

And now, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, they have a positive update on Haskins’ injury. It appears that the injury he suffered is just a high ankle sprain.

While Haskins may want to play in the season finale, it would probably be best for the Redskins to hold him out to avoid further injury to the ankle. It just doesn’t make sense to let Haskins play in a meaningless game, especially against a Dallas Cowboys team who will be desperate to earn a win as they look to stay alive in the playoff race.

To replace Haskins, Case Keenum can be given another chance to start and build up value ahead of his free agency. This would be a show of goodwill toward Keenum, who has been accepting of his role throughout the season despite the fact that he flip-flopped between starter and backup roles for most of the first half of the season. Keenum also played very well last week for the ‘Skins, so if he needs to start, he should be ready to at least keep them competitive in the contest.

It’s also worth noting that Haskins has shown a lot of development over the course of the last couple weeks, so the Redskins can send him into the offseason on a good note, knowing that he had played six very good quarters to close his 2019 season before injury struck.

We’ll see what the team ultimately decides to do, but the Redskins should play it safe here. If Haskins isn’t 100 percent, there’s no reason to trot him out as a starter in the season finale.