No. 1 — TE Austin Hooper
Tight end is quite possibly the biggest position of need for the Redskins heading into 2020, and Austin Hooper is arguably the most attractive name at that spot on the open market. At age 25 with four seasons under his best — the last two of which he was named to the Pro Bowl — Hooper has racked up 16 total touchdowns and has just five dropped passes in the last two years. On top of all the in-game stats, what may be the most encouraging number for Hooper is 5; the total number of games he’s missed in his career. After the 2019 season was lost in part because the Redskins were unable to have a healthy option at the TE position, that durability is definitely a large selling point.
There are a number of teams who will be after Hooper once free agency rolls around, so he won’t come cheap to the Redskins. If Washington were to convince Hooper to come to D.C., they would likely have to give him close to $10 million per year in order to do so.
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