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Washington has a quarterback shortage, and they may end up addressing it in every way possible. Including scavenging through the leftovers of the AAF. According to Field Yates of ESPN, Washington signed quarterback Josh Woodrum. Woodrum has bounced around a number of teams and leagues...

Getty Images There’s a saying that there is a difference between being hurt and being injured in the NFL. If you’re hurt, you can play. If you’re injured, you can’t. Washington Redskins wide receiver Paul Richardson was injured last year and tried to show he could play anyway. According to...

Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray was expected to meet with Washington this week. That no longer is the case. Steve Wyche of NFL Media reports that Murray’s trip to Washington is off. No reason was given for the cancellation. That means the Heisman Trophy winner won’t meet with Washington...

Getty Images On Christmas Eve, Matt Millen had a new heart put in his body to replace the old, failing one. Saturday, he was back in the broadcast booth, talking about the spring game at his alma mater, Penn State. “I never thought anything about not doing this,” Millen joked, via Audrey...

Getty Images So if the deadline imposed by quarterback Russell Wilson on the Seahawks comes and goes without a new contract, what happens next? Here’s one thing that should happen: Other teams without short-list franchise quarterbacks should call the Seahawks to inquire regarding what it would...

Getty Images The domestic violence charges that led Washington linebacker Reuben Foster to be placed on the Commissioner’s Exempt list last year were dropped in January and that led team president Bruce Allen to say that it was time for Foster to resume his playing career. Allen got what he...

Getty Images Washington took a chance on Reuben Foster when no one else was willing to — claiming him off waivers shortly after he was charged with domestic violence. But those charges were dropped in January, and now he has avoided suspension from the league, but the team offered its firm...

Getty Images One of the benefits of a Friday afternoon NFL bad-news dump is that maybe not as many people will notice. The other benefit is that maybe people won’t ask the NFL tough questions about it. Plenty of tough questions could be asked about the NFL’s decision to fine but not to suspend...

Getty Images Longtime NFL linebacker and former Lions executive is recovering from a heart transplant, and the recovery is going well enough for him to get back to work. Via Gary Peterson of the Bay Area News Group, Millen will broadcast the Penn State spring football game for the Big Ten...

Getty Images UNC Charlotte offensive lineman Nate Davis is generating plenty of attention in the days preceding the 2019 draft. Per a league source, Davis will rack up a total of 10 pre-draft visits. He either has visited or will visit the Rams, Vikings, Panthers, Titans, Bills, Bears...

Getty Images Linebacker DeMarquis Gates lost a job when the Alliance of American Football went out of business, but he landed another one on Thursday. Washington announced that they have signed Gates to their 90-man roster. Gates was with the Memphis Express for the AAF’s eight-game season...

Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray will visit Washington next week, Albert Breer of SI.com reports. Murray visited the Giants today and already has visited the Cardinals, who could make him the No. 1 overall pick. Washington does not have a long-term solution at quarterback with Alex Smith‘s...

Getty Images Simms, as you know by now, works only four days per week. Which means that, on Friday, I’ve got to do PFTOT on my own. Today’s Simms-free effort is attached, with five different topics covered. First, there’s more on the Leonard Fournette arrest as it relates to his guaranteed...

Getty Images Washington has added a second former AAF player to its 90-man roster. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the team has signed guard Salesi Uhatafe. They signed defensive lineman Andrew Ankrah last week. Uhatafe played for the Utah Stallions in the AAF before the league closed...

Getty Images As a true freshman at Oklahoma in 2004, Adrian Peterson ran for 1,925 yards and finished second in Heisman Trophy voting. At that time, he was ready for the NFL. But the NFL wasn’t ready for him. League rules say a player must be three years out of high school before he can play...

Getty Images If you can’t tell anything about a team’s interest in a particular player by a pre-draft visit, you can tell something about the position he plays. So with Washington bringing in all the quarterbacks, it’s clear they want as much information as possible about the members of this...

Getty Images Washington officials won’t even acknowledge that Alex Smith is unlikely to play this year, but the way they’re looking at quarterbacks makes it reasonably clear they’re not expecting him any time soon, if at all. The latest quarterback to visit will be Ohio State’s Dwayne Haskins...

Getty Images Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen is going to report to work in Arizona today, for the start of Kliff Kingsbury’s offseason program. How long he remains a Cardinal remains to be seen. According to Peter King of NBC’s Football Morning in America, Washington remains the team in best...

Getty Images The effort to preserve the drama of the first night of the draft continues. Adam Schefter of ESPN, one of the two Disney-owned networks that will be televising the draft, reports that Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen will be present for the start of the team’s offseason program on...

Add Washington to the list of teams plucking former AAF players for their offseason rosters. John Keim of ESPN.com reports that the team has agreed to terms with defensive end Andrew Ankrah. He adds that no deal has officially been signed at this point, but it seems likely to go through as long...