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Getty Images Washington released quarterback Alex Smith on Friday, a move that has been expected for the last week. The Football Team confirmed the news with a statement from head coach Ron Rivera, thanking the quarterback for his time with the organization. “I had a chance to meet with Alex...

USA TODAY Sports The NFL’s investigation of the Washington Football Team has created much speculation as to its conclusions and implications. On Friday morning, it has sparked a skirmish regarding a reported recommendation and the league’s denial of it. According to 106.7 The Fan in D.C., the...

Getty Images Washington receiver Terry McLaurin missed only one game last season, but it wasn’t easy to stay on the field. McLaurin missed eight practices with an ankle injury and was limited in five other practices, including the postseason. Before four games, the team listed him as...

Getty Images Veteran linebacker Thomas Davis, who has said he is retiring, was released by the Washington Football Team today. The release has little practical effect, given that Davis’s contract expires in two weeks anyway. It’s possible that Washington gave Davis his release early so he...

Getty Images Last month the Washington Football Team settled claims brought by members of the all-female cheerleading squad, who alleged among other things that high-level team executives passed around a lewd video of the cheerleaders. Now the team is going in a different direction on the...

Getty Images Within hours of the report that Washington is parting ways with quarterback Alex Smith, reports started pegging the Bears as the logical next stop in Smith’s career. Smith could make sense for Chicago because the Bears need a quarterback, and because Smith has a strong...

Getty Images Two and a half years after Washington claimed linebacker Reuben Foster off waivers from San Francisco, it appears that he’ll be leaving Washington without ever having played a game for the Football Team. Foster was picked up during the 2018 season after the 49ers waived him...

Getty Images The following are PFT’s top 100 free agents for the start of the 2021 league year. The rankings include prospective unrestricted free agents, as well as released players. The list will be updated as events warrant, with signings, tags and re-signings denoted when announced and/or...

Getty Images Though Alex Smith was the AP comeback player of the year in 2020, Washington will be moving on. Ian Rapoport and Kim Jones of NFL Media report the Football Team is expected to part ways with Smith in the coming days. Smith had two years remaining on his contract with Washington...

Getty Images Washington Football Team quarterback Kyle Allen continues to make progress in his return from the fractured ankle that ended his 2020 season. Allen posted a video to his Instagram story that shows him throwing a football on the beach. That comes a few weeks after Allen said he...

Getty Images Louis Nix, a third-round pick of the Texans in 2014 who also spent time with the Giants, Washington, and Jaguars, has gone missing in Florida. Ben Becker of ActionNewsJax.com posted the plea from Nix’s mother, who explained that she has heard nothing from her son in several days...

Getty Images Kelvin Harmon is growing closer to a return from surgery to repair an ACL and LCL last summer. The Washington receiver missed all of 2020, which makes him even more eager to begin the 2021 season. “I tried to make it into a positive because obviously there was nothing I could do,”...

Getty Images As the NFL closes in on closing the investigation involving years of alleged and/or actual misconduct within the Washington Football Team, multiple former employees want to be sure that the matter isn’t swept under the rug. Via the Washington Post, two former employees sent a...

Getty Images Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has played for 25 percent of the NFL’s teams. He’ll likely be joining a ninth team in 2021. Via Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald, Fitzpatrick “believes he’s played well enough the past couple of years to get a chance to at least compete for a...

Getty Images While Alex Smith has said he believes his return to football threw a wrench in the plans of the Washington Football Team, one of his fellow quarterbacks hopes the team’s future continues to have Smith as a part of it. In an interview with the NFL Network, Taylor Heinicke said he...

Getty Images In recent comments to GQ, Washington quarterback Alex Smith provided frank, candid comments regarding his belief that the team “didn’t want me there” as he tried to return from a badly-broken leg. Smith now seems to regretting the impact his comments had. “Seems to be” becomes the...

Getty Images Soon-to-be-free-agent quarterback Cam Newton recently declared that there aren’t 32 quarterbacks better than him. He’s right. On Tuesday’s PFT Live, Simms and I went through all 32 teams and identified several starting (for now) quarterbacks who aren’t as good, in our view, as...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team will have a proper football team name again, eventually. On Tuesday, the organization launched a website that will chronicle the team’s search for a new name. WashingtonJourney.com allows fans to submit their own ideas for a new name for the franchise...

Getty Images After benching Dwayne Haskins and watching Kyle Allen go down with an ankle injury, the Washington Football Team turned to Alex Smith as their starting quarterback. It was Smith’s first time in that role since the 2018 leg injury that threatened his life and career, but he was...

Getty Images San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman has a rather high opinion of Washington wide receiver Terry McLaurin. McLaurin, who has racked up 145 catches, 2,037 yards and 11 touchdowns in his two seasons in D.C., has flashed star potential despite having numerous quarterbacks...