With the No. 2 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Washington Football Team pretty much had their pick of the litter when it came to guys they wanted on their team.
Pretty much.
The one guy that they couldn’t get to was LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, who went No. 1 to the Cincinnati Bengals after winning both the Heisman Trophy and the National Championship. Now, as we head into Week 11 and prepare for Burrow to face off against Washington and Chase Young, who was eventually selected at No. 2, Ron Rivera is letting the truth out about Burrow and their initial intentions on draft day.
Ron Rivera spoke with the Bengals media this week about whether Washington would have selected Joe Burrow at 2 if available. Answer: Yes even with Dwayne Haskins here. Don't recall hearing him say that before. (h/t @kevinsheehanDC) pic.twitter.com/XDrkMH3X7y
— Ben Standig (@BenStandig) November 20, 2020
Back in April, it seemed pretty clear that Washington was going with Dwayne Haskins as their starting QB, but the ‘coach speak’ was that there was going to be a competition at the position and the best man would win. It appears that this line of thinking from Rivera goes along the same lines of what ended up happening, with him not being married to Haskins, and an early interest in Burrow as his franchise quarterback.
Of course, there was almost a zero percent chance that Burrow was going to slip past the Bengals at No. 1, so everything played out pretty much as expected.
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