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Getty Images Washington signed defensive back Ashton Lampkin on Tuesday, the team announced. It waived linebacker DeMarquis Gates in a corresponding move. Lampkin has never played a regular-season NFL game. Lampkin entered the league in 2017 as an undrafted free agent, signing with the...

Washington doesn’t have an unofficial depth chart at quarterback. They’ll surely have one at some point during training camp, and rookie Dwayne Haskins surely hopes to do what he can to land as high on it as possible. To get there, Haskins will need to spend time learning the offense during the...

Getty Images I’m still skeptical that a bracket-style, made-for-TV 40-yard dash event will actually happen, because I can’t imagine NFL teams being thrilled with players under contract risking a pulled hamstring or worse less than a month before camp. But 40 Yards of Gold is still pushing...

Getty Images Landon Collins wasn’t able to tackle Saquon Barkley last year, which is good because they were teammates. But now that he’s changed sides, the Washington safety is ready to take on the Giants running back. “I’ve been ready to tackle Saquon,” Collins said, via Art Stapleton of...

Getty Images Washington running back Adrian Peterson has proven he can still be productive, and has continued to set high goals for himself. But as he gets closer to the end of a strong career, he’s thinking about the end, and who he wants to end it with. According to Ben Goessling of the...

Getty Images The Cardinals used the top waiver position in the league to snag tackle Desmond Harrison after the Browns dropped him from their roster this week, but they weren’t the only team interested in adding Harrison to their roster. Field Yates of ESPN reports that Washington also put in...

Getty Images While there are few specifics surrounding the absence of Washington left tackle Trent Williams at the moment, team president Bruce Allen doesn’t seem concerned about the unknown at the moment. Allen told J.P. Finlay of NBCSportsWashington.com that he’s not surprised by Williams’...

Washington will have a new tight end at practice when they wrap up their offseason schedule with next week’s organized team activities. The team announced the signing of Donald Parham on Friday. There was no corresponding move needed to make space on the 90-man roster because the team cut tight...

Getty Images Washington took 10 players in this year’s draft and all of them are now under contract. Third-round pick Terry McLaurin became the final player to agree to his rookie deal. It will be a four-year pact for the former Ohio State wide receiver. McLaurin caught 35 passes for 701...

Kirk Cousins has started only two playoff games, winning neither. Yet, the Vikings signed him to a three-year deal last year that made him, at the time, the highest-paid player in NFL history. The Vikings have to figure out how to get back to what they did in 2017, now with Cousins as their...

Getty Images Washington waived tight end Manasseh Garner on Thursday, according to the NFL’s official transactions report. Garner, 27, has played one career regular-season game. He originally signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent out of Pittsburgh in 2015. He also has spent time...

Most teams have a first-string quarterback, unofficially, at this point of the offseason. Washington doesn’t. “We’re not even thinking about that right now to be honest with you,” coach Jay Gruden told reporters on Thursday. “We’re giving them equal reps. We don’t really have a one’s or a two’s...

Getty Images Players typically stick up for fellow players in disputes with teams and Morgan Moses is no exception when it comes to teammate Trent Williams. According to John Keim of ESPN.com, Moses expressed support for Williams, who is absent from Washington’s mandatory mini-camp due to...

Adrian Peterson authored one of the seven 2,000-yard seasons in NFL history when he was 27 years old and checking that box hasn’t taken it off his list of goals now that he’s 34. Peterson told Peter King last year that he believed he was capable of another 2,000-yard campaign and he isn’t...

Getty Images When Washington tackle Trent Williams skipped mandatory minicamp, we wondered whether it was about more than just wanting a new contract. It was. Williams told teammates he wants to be traded or released because he’s upset with how the team handled his recent medical situation...

Getty Images Trent Williams skipped Washington’s mandatory minicamp, asking the team to trade him or release him. Washington coach Jay Gruden still has hope Williams returns, though. “I sure hope so,” Gruden said Wednesday when JP Finlay of NBCSportsWashington.com asked if he believes Williams...

Getty Images Washington coach Jay Gruden said Tuesday that Alex Smith was “recovering nicely” from his right leg injury. The quarterback, though, will have to wear his external fixator for at least another month, Gruden told reporters Wednesday. The fixator cast is the device that holds his...

Getty Images Washington left tackle Trent Williams is unhappy enough with the team to skip mandatory minicamp, but even one of his closest friends on the team doesn’t know exactly what the issue is. Asked about the report that Williams is upset with how the team’s medical staff handled a...

Getty Images Washington head coach Jay Gruden said in May that the team is expecting big things from wide receiver Josh Doctson during the 2019 season, but their actions didn’t show tremendous confidence that Doctson will finally pull everything together on the field. The team opted not to...

Getty Images Word emerged on Tuesday that Washington tackle Trent Williams isn’t present for the team’s mandatory minicamp. His concern reportedly is contractual. There’s reason to believe, however, that the problem could be bigger than the size of his paychecks. Consider this: It appears that...