With the final stretch run towards the playoffs getting set to take place in the NFL, teams near the bottom of the league are left to evaluate talent and look towards the 2020 NFL Draft. With 11 games under their belt, many fans of the Washington Redskins may be looking at the roster and making judgments based on performance, but it still might be too early to settle on some.
For rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins, there’s still a lot more to be seen before any major decisions can be made.
With just three career starts under his belt, Haskins has shown improvement down the line, but he still has a long way to go before living up to his first-round draft pick expectations. The Redskins knew this would be the case when drafting him last year.
“If you’re committed to a young player, you have to be committed to the person over a period of time,” Washington legend Joe Theismann said, via NBC Sports Washington. “Dwayne played against the Giants briefly, Minnesota briefly, and he’s started three football games. When you step back, the young man has played 16 football games, three as a professional and 13 in college.”
Though his stats don’t show much improvement, the eye test depicts a more comfortable QB who is seeing the game slow down around him. On Sunday, he was reportedly dealing with a wrist injury that caused him to be off-the-mark on a number of throws, but he was able to avoid many bad decisions, and he often made it through his progressions and located the open man downfield.
In today’s day and age, it’s tough not to make snap judgments on players right after watching them, but Washington knew that Haskins would be a project, and he would take time to develop. So far in his career, we’ve seen some improvement, and that’s what matters at this point.
