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Getty Images The Washington Football Team announced the signings of cornerback Linden Stephens and tight end Deon Yelder on Wednesday. Stephens, 26, played 13 games for the Seahawks last season and made three tackles. He was an undrafted free agent in 2018, singing with New Orleans. Stephens...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team had scenarios in mind to where they would have come out of last weekend’s NFL Draft with a new quarterback on their roster. However, those scenarios were scuttled fairly quickly as the quarterbacks they were intrigued by came off the board early. “We...

USA TODAY Sports The Washington Football Team is well stocked at the top of their edge rusher depth chart, but they may still have some moves to make on the lower rungs. General Manager Martin Mayhew drafted William Bradley-King and Shaka Toney in the seventh round, but said after the draft...

Getty Images When the Ravens brought in tackle Alejandro Villanueva for a visit last month, word from Baltimore reporters was that the team was not expected to make a move until after the draft. Compensatory draft picks were central to that approach. The Ravens and other teams have prized the...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL teams to exercise their fifth-year contract options on 2018 first-round picks passed on Monday afternoon and 21 players had those options picked up. Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold is part of that group. Carolina traded for Darnold last month and announced...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team added a pair of wide receivers in the draft and they started making room for them by dropping another wideout from the roster on Monday. Ben Standig of TheAthletic.com reports that the team is cutting Jeff Badet. Dyami Brown and Dax Milne were the new...

Getty Images Jeff Badet is not the only player leaving the Washington Football Team’s receiving corps on Monday. The team announced that wide receiver Trevor Davis has also been released. The moves come days after Washington drafted wide receivers Dyami Brown and Dax Milne. Davis did not...

Getty Images Running back Jaret Patterson put up impressive numbers during his college days at Buffalo, but they weren’t enough to get him drafted in Cleveland. Patterson will get a chance to make it in the NFL, however. The Washington Football Team announced his signing on Monday. Patterson...

Getty Images He wasn’t the first defensive player taken in the draft. He’s the first favorite to win defensive rookie of the year. Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons, the 12th overall selection, has been installed by PointsBet as a +450 proposition to secure the award based on the 17...

Getty Images The first overall pick is the first favorite to win the rookie of the year award. But the 24th pick could be the one to watch. Via PointsBet, Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has +250 odds to win the prize the night before Super Bowl LVI. That part was predictable. After that...

Getty Images Robert Griffin III knows a thing or two about being supplanted by another quarterback. He now thinks the fourth-round quarterback who supplanted him in Washington will be supplanted by a 2021 third-round pick. Griffin said during a Friday night BleacherReport.com draft show that...

Getty Images Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera said earlier this month that he didn’t feel any pressure to get a franchise quarterback right now and the team’s approach to the first round of the draft illustrated that feeling. Justin Fields and Mac Jones fell out of the Top 10 and...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team made a surprising selection with the 19th overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft. Washington’s pick was Kentucky linebacker Jamin Davis, who wasn’t a first-round pick in most mock drafts. Davis was only a starter for one year, but he has shown himself to...

Getty Images As to the first two picks in the draft, there’s no mystery. After that, it’s all a mystery. At the center of the mystery resides Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields. Once regarded as the No. 2 quarterback in the draft (especially after shredding presumptive No. 1 pick Trevor...

Getty Images If the lawyers on both sides of the Deshaun Watson litigation have indeed decided to trade public squabbles for private negotiations, and if they can work out a settlement of the 22 civil claims pending against the Texans quarterback before or during the draft, a trade could...

Getty Images A trade isn’t always a welcomed thing for a player being moved from one team to another. However, guard Ereck Flowers is excited to be returning to Washington after the Football Team traded for him in a deal with the Miami Dolphins on Tuesday. “I’m very excited and anxious to get...

Getty Images It appears that one of the most efficient ways to guarantee a future legal fight with Washington owner Daniel Snyder is to agree to work for him. (That’s an attempt at humor, not an assertion of fact.) Attorney Beth Wilkinson, who was hired by Snyder last year to investigate...

Getty Images Before trading him to Washington, the Dolphins gave Ereck Flowers a $6 million going away present. Flowers was set to get paid $9 million in 2021 on his old contract with the Dolphins, but just before the trade, he and the Dolphins agreed to a restructure that saw him get a $6...

Getty Images Last season, Washington snuck into the playoffs with a 7-9 record that was good for first place in the NFC East. Washington almost beat the eventual Super Bowl champion Buccaneers behind a strong performance from backup quarterback Taylor Heinicke. Heinicke, who was signed to a...

Getty Images Beth Wilkinson wants to accelerate the timetable for a hearing on a fight with the Washington Football Team regarding whether details regarding a sexual harassment case settled in 2009 will be disclosed for the purposes of her ongoing investigation regarding workplace misconduct...