Redskins Free Agency: Best and worst moves, scenarios

The Washington Redskins made a lot of moves in free agency. Here are the best and worst of those moves and the best- and worst-case scenarios for the team in 2020.

Who doesn’t love free agency? For my money, it’s more fun than mock drafts. In the mocks, you end up reading about some freakishly gifted WR from East-West Central State who your team might steal in Round 6. You get excited. And then the draft comes, and that never happens.

But with free agency, chances are you’ve heard of a lot of the names being bandied about. You can already envision how that up-and-coming hybrid safety, just finishing up his rookie deal, will match up against your rival’s stud tight end. And then free agency opens, and that never happens.

If you were studying the blogs just a couple a weeks ago, you would assume that by now, the Skins would have retooled their secondary with James Bradberry (the coach Rivera/Carolina connection), and maybe Logan Ryan for good measure. As for tight ends, point at the letter H and take your pick. Many prognosticators had the Skins scooping up Austin Hooper, but Hunter Henry or O.J. Howard (via trade) were certainly in the mix.

Well, we’re about a month in and they don’t have any of those guys. But they have made a number of moves, adding 12 new players via free agency, and one through trade, while jettisoning at least four significant players from the recent past. And that doesn’t even count the two former Pro Bowlers, Josh Norman, and Jordan Reed, with whom they parted ways a bit earlier.

So let’s do a little scorecard, with best and worst moves, as well as best and worst-case scenarios. Please keep in mind, these are realistic scenarios. Though I would agree that swapping Nick Sundberg for both Bosa brothers would have been a good move, I don’t think it was ever really in the cards.