Jason Wright might be Washington Football Team’s most significant hire
By Ian Cummings
Training camp perhaps dulled the impact that the Washington Football Team’s hire of Jason Wright was supposed to have, but after listening to him talk, it’s clear that he is nothing like his predecessor.
In the 2020 offseason, the Washington Football Team fired Jay Gruden, cutting its ties with over a half-decade of mediocrity. The Washington Football Team fired long time president Bruce Allen, and hired respected coach Ron Rivera to take over football operations.
The Washington Football Team transformed its very essence in the winter of 2020, and yet, the mid-training camp hire of Jason Wright as president might be the team’s most important move.
Last week, the Washington Football Team brought on former NFL running back and management consultant Jason Wright to become its new team president, finally filling a role that had been left vacant after the removal of Bruce Allen from his post. And already, the impression he’s left has been strong.
Granted, Wright’s predecessor didn’t leave him with a very high bar to reach, but Wright has already made clear that things will be different this time around, not just with what he’s said, but what he’s done. For an organization that writhed in a gelatinous spawn of dysfunction and toxicity for the past decade — a spawn precipitated by its front office — Wright is a welcome change, and the right man to right the ship.