Derrius Guice can alleviate the on-going loss of Chris Thompson

Derrius Guice is coming back at just the right time for the Washington Redskins.

As the team enters Week 11, news has come out early this week that running back Chris Thompson is still dealing with a toe injury, and all signs are point towards him sitting out yet another game. That’s an injury that has been pretty detrimental to the Redskins over the past month or so, but it will be less harmful now that Guice is set to go.

Now, with the team less reliant on Adrian Peterson, and AP alone, the offense can start to expand once again as rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins feels comfortable. When talking to the media on Wednesday, coach Bill Callahan said that he is excited about the prospects that Guice brings out of the backfield, though he doesn’t yet know how the workload will be split between him and AP.

Before his injury, Callahan said Derrius Guice was coming into his own as a check-down back, pass protection scenarios. He’s behind Adrian Peterson on the depth chart.

— Rhiannon Walker (@InstantRHIplay) November 13, 2019

Callahan says that Guice can help where CT had been missed. They can kick him out as a WR, use him in the screen game and all the ways that they’ve used Thompson in the past. Good in protection as well.

— Craig Hoffman (@CraigHoffman) November 13, 2019

The team hopes to know more about the status of Thompson as the week goes on, but things aren’t looking up in that department at the moment. However, with Guice’s long-awaited return to the field, it may not be as detrimental to success as it once was.