Are there any Redskins on the roster for the next All-Decade team?

Redskins potential All-Decade players

Landon Collins

This past season, I remember one play when there was no safety within 15 feet of an opposing player. Players were being left wide open — a huge problem of the Redskins this past season. But in Year 1 with the Redskins, Landon Collins graded out solid overall. In two instances, Collins put himself in the right place for a potential pick-six, and it could have been a different season if he had not had butterfingers. Adding two spectacular plays to a solid resume every season in the 2020s, Collins will be displaying a knack for the ball and proper positioning — some of the time. Get Collins in position all of the time, and then Rivera and Del Rio are going to get him back to the Pro Bowl. But we overpaid for him?

Brandon Scherff

Many believe his best days are behind him, as the Redskins brass just franchise tagged a player destined for decreased production. But no, Scherff’s best footballl days are ahead of him! Scherff has made multiple Pro Bowls, but he has not become an All-Pro. The Redskins know his talent and capabilities and believe a healthy Scherff is the potential best right guard in football. Seeing Grimm in this Hog and envisioning him fulfilling his potential, you can see an All-Decade performer. But his best days are behind him?

Dwayne Haskins

Bold prediction: Dwayne Haskins becomes G-O-O-D, good! There is a long list of Redskins quarterbacks this century who could not even throw the ball downfield: Danny Wuerffel and his glove, Shane Matthews, Tim Hasselback and his first ever zero-rating against the New York Giants, John Beck, the best man of Drew Brees, and one from last century, Congressman Health Shuler. Haskins appears to be different.

Haskins has shown the ability to deliver completions to open receivers at least 20 yards downfield. Haskins is placing his passes accurately into tight windows. There were quite a few drops in key situations which affected Haskins’ numbers, flow, and the Redskins’ chances of winning this past season.

Haskins is incredibly smart — a Bullis education, fulfilling childhood dreams, going back to Redskins glory days and picking No. 7, and giving us the Billy Kilmer look-alike game (kudos if you remember and agree). Haskins seems like he has had a blast. And for those of us old enough, so many people disliked the last No.7 antics. Nice J.T., (from your wikipedia page) seems like you finally found love the fourth try! Only a true Redskins fan will get that reference.

I saw one throw to McLaurin which seem to travel toward the roof before a McLaurin acrobatic sideline catch. The play of the season for the Redskins, it looked more like Haskins yelled “500” before “asking” Terry to go get that one. Haskins has yet to unleash a successful bomb — a 60-yard (hopeful) downfield launch that his receiver does not have to miss a stride to get under. That is Redskins football. If Haskins’ arm turns out to be golden, you could book him on the All-Decade Team next to a bust of Peyton Manning.

Terry McLaurin

Good and the sky is the limit. McLaurin has shown the ability to get open and catch a deep ball (more so from Keenum). Jonathan Eig’s description of Bobby Mitchell in a recent Riggo’s Rag article had Mitchell “shaking and baking past defenders.” I don’t see that yet from McLaurin in Year 1, but there is nothing that says he cannot be the next great Redskins receiver.

With a rookie year statically as good as Monk’s rookie season, McLaurin could start putting up 120 reception seasons — something the Redskins have yet to ever see from a player. Welcome to the 2020s! McLaurin will re-write the Redskins record book. Or, at least, we have not said he is incapable of that in this town.

Daron Payne or Jonathan Allen

To be on an All-Decade team, about 15-18 sacks out of a defensive end and 10-12 sacks from a defensive tackle are required on average per year, for a decade. These guys, Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne, would be playing off each other. Once again, they have appeared to make some outstanding plays, even taking over the field for a play here and there. Payne led multiple goal line stands last year. Stuffing a runner, he at times appeared to be an imposing force. Allen also has a chance to be on the All-Decade team; however, except for a two-sack game, he has not distinguish himself often. That said, my gut says that Payne and Allen are still the two players with the greatest potential to win a vast majority of plays in the trenches this decade.

There is one other in the Redskins organization to mention. No, not Chase Young. Haven’t seen him play, and he’s not in the Redskins organization yet. All you need to know is that Jason Peters made the All-Decade team for the 2010s, and now, he’s 38. This last guy is under 32 and could be the feature of a future Hall of Fame bust: Trent Williams — our man amongst boys for a few seasons this past decade. But he is gone.