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Getty Images Washington announced Thursday it signed free agent linebacker Jared Norris. Norris, 26, did not play in the NFL last season after the Panthers cut him out of the preseason. Norris entered the league as an undrafted free agent out of Utah in 2016, signing with the Panthers. He...

Getty Images Washington cornerback Quinton Dunbar‘s plans for the offseason became a subject of discussion earlier this week when a report that he would not take part in the voluntary portions of the offseason program was followed a short time later by word that Dunbar wants to be traded or...

Getty Images XFL broadcasts include far more access to coaches and players than NFL broadcasts. One XFL coach who previously worked as an NFL coach apparently wasn’t prepared for the extent to which the XFL takes fans inside the game. Via Scott Hanson of the Seattle Times, Seattle Dragons...

Getty Images Trent Williams may not be done in Washington after all. Williams, the left tackle who missed the entire 2019 season and said he never wanted to play for the team again because he didn’t trust its medical staff, had a positive conversation with new head coach Ron Rivera, according...

Getty Images There was word over the weekend that Jennifer King would be joining Ron Rivera’s coaching staff in Washington for the 2020 season and the team confirmed it with an announcement about King’s role on Monday. King will be a full-year coaching intern with the team and work with the...

Getty Images Washington cornerback Quinton Dunbar requested either a trade or his release Monday evening, Ben Standig of TheAthletic.com reports. Dunbar has one year remaining on the three-year contract he signed before the 2018 season. He is scheduled to make $3.5 million in salary and...

Getty Images Ron Rivera will be able to start working with Washington’s players in April, but it appears one of the team’s starting corners isn’t planning on being there. J.P. Finlay of NBCSportsWashington.com reports that Dunbar is not planning to attend the voluntary portions of the team’s...

Getty Images It was a raucous caucus. A former NFL player was sentenced to two days in jail, for showing up drunk and armed at an Iowa country supervisors meeting. According to the Associated Press, former NFL defensive lineman Mike Stensrud was arrested for drinking during a May 21 meeting...

Getty Images Greg Olsen spent some time in the broadcast booth during the first weekend of XFL action, but he’ll be back on the hunt for a job playing tight end in the NFL this week. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Olsen is in Washington on Monday and Seattle on Wednesday. Olsen also...

Getty Images All four of the Week One XFL games drew between 17,000 and 18,000 fans. But only one of the four games created the impression that the stadium was nearly full. In D.C., the Dragons-Defenders game seemed like a big deal because it was a played in a small stadium. Indeed...

Getty Images Washington owner Dan Snyder has previously lobbied the Maryland legislature to allow sports betting, and now he’s working on the Virginia legislature as well. The Washington Post reports that Snyder is having success lobbying officials in Virginia, where two sports betting bills...

Getty Images Washington is the latest NFL team to hire a female assistant coach. Rhiannon Walker of TheAthletic.com reports that Jennifer King will join Ron Rivera’s staff as a full-time assistant. It is unclear at this point what position she will be coaching, but she has a familiarity with...

Getty Images Ron Rivera will make Dwayne Haskins win the starting quarterback job, a challenge Haskins said Friday he’s “cool” with and ready to “eventually take it over.” Doug Williams weighed in on Haskins’ big offseason, imploring the 15th overall pick in 2019 to “stay at the facility until...

The XFL has returned, and it got started with a revolutionary kickoff formation. D.C. kicked to Seattle, with the D.C. kicker (not my Internet son) alone at his own 30. The rest of his teammates stood at the Seattle 35, while 10 Dragons players were standing at the 30. Prior to and after the...

Getty Images Cornerback James Bradberry played out the final year of his contract with the Panthers in 2019 and he said at the end of the year that he is “open to any and all possibilities” for where he’ll continue his career in 2020. One of the possibilities that he’d consider would be...

Getty Images Running back Derrius Guice hopes to prove to Washington and the rest of the NFL that he’s able to remain healthy over the course of an entire season, but the team does not have to put all of its backfield eggs in that basket. They have an option on Adrian Peterson‘s contract for...

Getty Images While everyone expects Dwayne Haskins to remain Washington’s starting quarterback in 2020 — they did draft him 15th overall after all — coach Ron Rivera has made it clear Haskins will have to earn the job. Rivera repeatedly has talked about a quarterback competition, even bringing...

Getty Images New Washington coach Ron Rivera has made it clear he hopes to get disgruntled Washington left tackle Trent Williams back in the boat. And old Washington coach Joe Gibbs thinks Rivera is just the man to reel Williams back in. Williams vowed to not return to the team last year, but...

Getty Images Vernon Davis‘ body was ready for a year or two. His head, though, told him no. The Washington tight end elaborated on his decision to retire at the age of 36, citing the five concussions he had. The last came in Week Four, ending his season and his career. “Just the simple wear...

Getty Images Most people expect the Bengals to take a quarterback with the first overall pick in this year’s draft and that would leave Ohio State defensive end Chase Young for Washington with the second overall pick. The team will be working to make sure that Young’s the right pick for them...