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Getty Images Week 17 of the 2020 NFL season is a Sunday-only affair. All 32 teams in the league will be playing on Sunday as the league finalizes who is in the playoffs and what seeds they’ll get with a slate of games that culminates with Washington visiting Philadelphia. If Washington wins...

Getty Images Safety Jalen Mills won’t be on hand as the Eagles try to stop the Washington Football Team from winning the NFC East on Sunday night. The Eagles announced that Mills will miss the game after being placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. They did not announce whether Mills tested...

Getty Images Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera expressed optimism on Thursday about the chances of having wide receiver Terry McLaurin and running back Antonio Gibson in the lineup on Sunday night, but neither one got on the practice field on Friday. The team is practicing inside...

Getty Images Alex Smith appears to be heading toward a return to the field in Washington’s must-win game on Sunday night. Smith is working with the first-string offense today in practice, his first time doing so since suffering the calf injury that forced him to miss the last two games. After...

Getty Images Alex Smith was back to work with the first team at Washington’s practice on Thursday, but the quarterback didn’t do enough work to be considered a full participant. Smith was listed as limited in the session, which still marked a step in the right direction after he didn’t...

Getty Images The Eagles selected Jalen Reagor with the 21st overall pick in the spring draft, one of six wide receivers taken in the first round. Reagor had plenty going against him for his rookie year, from not having a true offseason program to acclimate to the league to tearing a thumb...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team is known as the Washington Football Team for the first time this season. The Washington Football Team isn’t known for starting fast this season. As noted by the Associated Press, Washington hasn’t scored on the opening drive of any game this season. On...

Getty Images Washington quarterback Alex Smith may have been “right on the doorstep” of playing in Week 16, but he’s still not practicing. Smith appeared on the Wednesday injury report as not practicing, due to a calf injury that has caused him to miss the last two games. Taylor Heinecke took...

Getty Images Free-agent quarterback Dwayne Haskins needs a new team. He also needs a new agent. Haskins and David Mulugheta of Athletes First have mutually agreed to part ways, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com. The term “mutual agreement” often is used as a P.R. device aimed. Rarely, if...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team has not yet named its starting quarterback for Sunday night’s must-win game against the Eagles, but Taylor Heinicke is running with the first-string offense today. Reporters on the scene said Heinicke is getting the first-team reps while Alex Smith...

Getty Images In the ongoing legal battles between Washington majority owner Daniel Snyder and his limited partners, Snyder has scored a preliminary win. A federal judge in Maryland has ordered two key questions relating to the potential sale of the minority interest in the franchise to be...

Getty Images Washington listed Alex Smith as a non-participant in practice on Wednesday, but it doesn’t sound like that’s a reason for increased pessimism about his chances of playing against the Eagles. Smith said that the plan for the day was for him to throw and do other work on the side...

Getty Images Washington owner Dan Snyder was a big fan of Dwayne Haskins before the 2019 draft and may or may not have ordered the selection of the former Ohio State quarterback with the 15th overall choice. It’s clear, though, that neither the past coaching staff or present coaching staff...

Getty Images The NFC East is the only division in football that’s still a three-team race heading into Week 17. If the favored teas win, Washington takes the division. Washington is currently a two-point favorite on the road in Philadelphia on Sunday Night Football, while Dallas is a...

Getty Images When the Panthers defeated Washington on Sunday, they got a significant boost from their special teams unit. Now one of its members has been recognized for his performance. Punter Joseph Charlton has been named NFC special teams player of the week after landing all five of his...

USA TODAY Sports Washington linebacker Thomas Davis has announce his plans to retire at the end of the season. Few would have expected Davis to be playing in 2020 season after he tore his ACL in three straight years early in his career, but Davis persevered and put together a memorable NFL...

Getty Images It’s Tuesday. Which means it’s time to hand out the awards for the sixteenth week of the regular season. That happened on Tuesday’s PFT PM. As usual, MDS, Charean Williams, and I named an offensive player of the week, a defensive player of the week, a rookie of the week, and a...

Getty Images Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz was asked to sum up how the defense performed in 2020 at a Tuesday press conference, but said that he wouldn’t answer the question with a game left on the schedule. While the Eagles are out of playoff contention, Schwartz said he felt...

Getty Images With only one week left in the regular season, it would have been easy for Washington to carry quarterback Dwayne Haskins into the offseason, hope for a trade market to develop, and make a decision about his future later. Washington opted instead to admit a mistake and move on...