Montez Sweat is one of the standouts of Washington Redskins practices so far this offseason, even if he isn’t generating headlines the same way a rookie quarterback like Dwayne Haskins might.
Sweat is hard to miss though at 6’6″ and 240 pounds. And so is the way the Redskins are already using him. He’s rushing upright but kicking down to the defensive line when the Redskins have four linemen on the field.
Defensive line coach Jim Tomsula hasn’t held back in his praise, as he told the Washington Post’s Les Carpenter:
“I mean, you know the stuff you saw on college tape, the stuff you saw in workouts; I mean, you don’t hide 4.4 speed. You don’t hide that height; you don’t hide that length. Then coming out here, obviously we don’t have pads on, but do you see a guy heavy-handed? Yeah, he’s a heavy-handed guy. You don’t write checks before you can cash them, but it’s exciting to watch.”
The Redskins clearly felt strongly about Sweat in the first place after trading up in the first round to get him.
Now that Sweat is the in the door, the coaches haven’t hesitated to deploy him in a number of different ways.
With Tomsula and both linebackers and defensive linemen embracing Sweat, Tomsula is right — the developments so far are exciting.
