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Washington Football Team: Buy, sell, or hold after Week 3

By Tim Payne

Aug 31, 2020; Washington, DC, United States; Washington Football Team wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) catches a pass during a practice at Fedex Field. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 31, 2020; Washington, DC, United States; Washington Football Team wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) catches a pass during a practice at Fedex Field. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports /
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Sep 27, 2020; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns defensive end Adrian Clayborn (94) chases Washington Football Team wide receiver Antonio Gandy-Golden (10) during the first quarter at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 27, 2020; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns defensive end Adrian Clayborn (94) chases Washington Football Team wide receiver Antonio Gandy-Golden (10) during the first quarter at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports /

Hold

These guys didn’t play particularly well in Week 3, but they deserve more time to prove that they can find success as the season goes along.

WR Antonio Gandy-Golden. AGG has struggled to earn playing time. And he looked surprisingly fast on the jet sweep he took for 22 yards. But, he dropped a perfect ball from Haskins. He’s not going to earn more playing time like that. He’s got a unique skill set that the team could definitely use. But he’s definitely suffered from the truncated offseason. The jury is most definitely still out on whether he’s going to be a long-term piece for this team.

EDGE Ryan Kerrigan. Kerrigan has had two forgettable performances the last two weeks after winning Defensive Player of the Week the first week of the season. His terrible late-game offsides penalty when Cleveland was clearly not planning to run a play essentially iced the game. He’s still a solid player, but he’s going to have to play more consistently to merit sticking around next season.

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QB Dwayne Haskins. Haskins has been somewhere between “meh” and terrible this season. On Sunday, he cost the team any chance of a win — a win which the rest of the team and coaching staff performed well enough to earn.

If there was a potential future starter on the roster outside of Haskins, then his seat would and should be very hot at this point. But with Alex Smith and Kyle Allen as your other rostered quarterbacks, there’s simply no reason not to ride out the season with Haskins, at least until the bye week.

If you lose the next five games because of Haskins’ inaccuracy and poor decision-making, then maybe you let Smith or Allen see what they can do in the second half of the season while you aggressively prepare to go after a different option for 2021 via the draft or free agency. But Haskins’ ceiling is undoubtedly high enough that he’s worth giving the chance to make incremental improvements.

Washington fans should not kid themselves that the NFC East is up for grabs. Talk to me if Dallas gets to 1-5 and loses 2-3 key offensive players. The entire priority for this season must be to find out who is and isn’t worth committing to long-term. Haskins is the only quarterback on the roster who has the potential to be a franchise quarterback moving forward. You have to let it play out.

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