After the incredibly exciting 2019 NFL draft the Washington Redskins might have to get boring in the 2020 draft.
“Boring” as in taking the best offensive lineman available.
It’s not a bad way to go and that’s what Michael Renner of Pro Football Focus has the team doing in his new mock draft with Andrew Thomas out of Georgia:
“Thomas’ career grading profile is about as impressive as we’ve seen from an offensive lineman in our six years of analyzing college (that is until Oregon’s Penei Sewell next year). He’s allowed all of 35 pressures in three years as a starter in his career, and he is currently the highest graded draft-eligible Power-5 offensive lineman. Not a bad replacement for Trent Williams.”
While the whole Trent Williams situation has been a big black eye on the organization, it truly lucked into Donald Penn as a stopgap solution.
But the veteran Penn is only going to last so much longer in this sort of role.
Thomas might not be the most exciting way to go a year removed from getting a quarterback and trading back up to get Montez Sweat. But if he lets the franchise move on from Williams while properly protecting Dwayne Haskins, everybody wins.
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