There are some feelings in the Washington Redskins’ fanbase that team owner Dan Snyder might have overstepped his bounds by encouraging rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins to listen to trainers and sit out for the rest of the game after suffering a high-ankle sprain in the third quarter.
Some people think that Snyder was being too ‘hands-on,’ though the situation was a bit muddled at first after Haskins said post-game that the owner told him not to go back in. A bit later, it was cleared up on social media that Snyder rather encouraged Haskins to listen to the trainers, who were saying the rookie was done for the day.
Regardless of what the fanbase thinks, there are some players in the locker room that don’t think Snyder was out of pocket, and he was well within his rights as owner of the team to try and protect his assets.
“I mean, Haskins is the guy. He’s the guy of the future,” running back Chris Thompson said, via NBC Sports Washington. “So it would make sense to me for [Snyder] to go down and talk to him and tell him to be smart. That’s the biggest thing. He’s a competitive guy, so he’s going to try and go back out there in the game, of course. That’s the smart thing to do right now, in my opinion, is to sit back and chill.”
Thompson later detailed his time sitting next to Haskins on the sideline, where the rookie was lobbying to get back into the game. If we’ve seen anything so far, Haskins is hard-pressed to let anything keep him out of competition, and it takes a lot to keep him away from the action. This time, it took the owner of the team to tell him to be smart, and it was the right decision all around.
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