Once again, the Washington Football Team is being left on the side of the dance floor, waiting for someone to offer them a hand. This time, it’s ESPN who left them out of the prestigious Top 100 Players for 2020 list that they put out before each season, detailing who they think will be the most notable and impactful players in the entire league. They asked a panel of 46 ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on how good they will be in the 2020 season in comparison to their peers.
Of course, there isn’t a major expectation that Washington should be getting 4-5 players called out for this exercise, but really? Does not one player deserve to be there? Is Terry McLaurin worse than A.J. Brown? Is Landon Collins worse than Kevin Byard? Is Brandon Scherff worse than Mitchell Schwartz?
Washington wasn’t the only team to be left out of the list, with the Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins, and New York Jets being left out as well. Expectations for a successful season aren’t exactly through the roof, but anyone who has been watching and following along with training camp in Washington knows that there are at least a handful of players that would be stars on any other team, especially if wins were more prevalent.
That just means that this list in the future will look different, assuming that Washington can start to pick up these wins that we keep predicting.
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