The role of starting quarterback for the Washington Redskins is seemingly Dwayne Haskins’ to lose, but it won’t be without some competition.
While Ron Rivera and the new coaching staff has yet to completely place their confidence in Haskins as the QB1 going forward, it seems like he has a good leg up on the rest of the competition, who has yet to be named. With backup QBs Colt McCoy and Case Keenum set to be free agents this coming year, and Alex Smith still recovering from a leg injury that kept him out for the entire 2019 season, it’s hard to get a sense of who Haskins will be pitted against for the QB1 spot.
Rivera doesn’t want to be quick to rule Smith out of the running though.
“I also don’t want to forget Alex Smith,” Rivera said, via NBC Sports Washington. “Here’s a guy that’s doing everything he can to come back, and if Alex can come back and be the player that he was we have a good situation, we have competition at that position.”
Smith’s NFL career was in doubt following his gruesome leg injury in 2018, and the subsequent 17 surgeries and infection that briefly threatened his life, and his leg, afterward. Still, though, Smith is eyeing a return to the field by the start of the 2020 season, and he could be healthy enough to enter into a QB competition with Haskins.
Smith has worked as a major mentor for Haskins during his short time in the NFL, and now he might be able to make him better once again through competition.
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