Consider the Washington Redskins in the quarterback sweepstakes during the first round of the 2019 NFL draft.
Redskins senior vice president of player personnel Doug Williams made the admission Thursday at the scouting combine while talking to reporters.
“I think where we are at this point, and like I said earlier, if there’s a quarterback there that we like at 15, 9 out of 10 we’ll go that route,” Williams said, according to NBC Sports Washington’s Peter Hailey. “If it’s not somebody we like, we’ll go with Colt [McCoy] and if we got to go out and get a veteran to work with him until that time comes, that’s probably what we’ll do. It all boils down to who’s there when it’s time for us to be.”
Teams typically try to keep the conversation vague at the combine. Apparently, Williams didn’t see a reason to at this stage.
Admittedly, the Redskins’ hand has been forced here. Alex Smith’s playing future is an unknown and the free-agent class of quarterbacks is both mediocre and likely asking for big money, which the Redskins don’t have.
There are four or five potential first-round quarterbacks in this year’s class, though after four came off the board in the top 10 last year, the Redskins aren’t guaranteed to see any of them drop to 15th.
