Despite Dwayne Haskins going off the 2019 draft board at No. 15 overall, he is a free agent barely 18 months later. The second-year quarterback went unclaimed on waivers Tuesday, Mike Garafolo of NFL.com tweets.
Washington waived Haskins less than 24 hours after starting him in Week 16 against the Panthers. The former one-year Ohio State sensation is no longer attached to his four-year rookie contract.
While Haskins went unclaimed, Washington still owes him the balance of that fully guaranteed rookie deal. In addition to dead money coming from Haskins’ signing bonus, his $1.8MM (2021) and $2.46MM (2022) base salaries will be on Washington’s payroll.
The team took a quarterback in Round 1 for the first time since Robert Griffin III in 2012 — a move influenced by Daniel Snyder and endorsed by then-team president Bruce Allen, but opposed by then-HC Jay Gruden — but Haskins will be seeking to start over already. Poor play and two COVID-19 protocol violations led to his Washington dismissal. The now-Ron Rivera-run team was willing to trade Haskins prior to this year’s deadline and only reinserted him into its starting lineup because of Alex Smith‘s calf injury. Smith’s 2018 injury led to Washington drafting Haskins barely a year after trading for Smith and handing him a four-year extension.
Washington will turn to either Smith or former UDFA Taylor Heinicke in a do-or-die Week 17 game in Philadelphia. Rivera said Smith was close to returning last week, boding well for his prospects to lift Washington to its first playoff berth since 2015.
not familiar with PS rules. id assume he’s not eligible under normal rules next year, right?
Well, he’d be a third year player, so I don’t believe so. You cannot have more than two years of accrued NFL service, or have already been on a practice squad for three years total already. The closest remaining possibility without placing him on a roster my guess is would be a futures contract in some setting.
I don’t know the rules that well, but I know that Josh Rosen spent this season on the TB PS and he’s a third-year player.
That was because of covid rules, lots of vets were on the taxi squad this year (Blake Bortles for example).
idk why thats so funny. Lol remember in high school they say something then be like for example Tim Couch. Lol thanks man made me laugh
Even dez bryant started on bmores ps before being moved up
Kinda says a lot when no one wanted you
It’s Week 17. No one wanted to deal with the headache. Someone will pick him up eventually.
Sure seems like the Lions could use him, would fit right in.
Rather see the Lions bring Rosen into next camp, see if he actually has anything. I was saying before this last draft that the Lions should trade Stafford for a load of picks. Instead, they ended up with a bum CB.
It says they can wait a week and get him for less money while Washington pays him.
I don’t think it says no one wants him. I think if anything it just says no one wanted to take a flyer at full price. He’ll be somewhere in the NFL next season. I don’t think he’s handed a starting gig, but I could easily see him as a back up somewhere.
Shocker.
Perfect match for xfl if it still existed…..dude needs to play vs lesser competition if he is ever gonna make it in the league….likely career backup.
imo, if he’s ever going to make it, he needs a solid team that really wants to develop him. Not a clown organization like Washington and having two head coaches in two years who have hated him since Day One.
you can’t help someone who thinks they don’t need it.
Laughable blaming his issues on the WTFs. Alex Smith has gone there and thrived….so….try again on who’s to blame here.
I agree with rct here. Haskins was the perfect fall guy for an organization that is totally dysfunctional but can’t admit it. To say Alex Smith has “thrived” behind the turnstile OL in Washington is quite a stretch.
Alex Smith had over a decade in the league, including playing for the best offensive coach in the league. Haskins’ entire pro experience is playing for a dysfunctional organization with coaches who didn’t want him, and the only really good weapon he’s had is one he already had in college.
laughable to assume that one of the worst sports organizations in North America harmed his development. yeah, a lot is on him, but certainly not all of it.
Maybe….just maybe, Haskins just….isn’t a good QB.
xfl is still around. the rock is interested and cardale jones will be able to mentor him.
That’s not a surprise. If someone wants him, it’s not on that contract.
So much for him being a better pick than Daniel Jones takes.
He is going to have to show he wants to change his lifestyle. You have to give up the stupid stuff and concentrate on your craft. First one in and one of the last ones out. When Haskins gets that, there could be a chance.
He’ll be on a team before the start of next season
So … 2 questions…
1) If a team in interested in signing Haskins, will they benefit by waiting until after the season so they don’t have to carry the contract?
2) If another team does pick up Haskins will the WFT get a compensatory pick?
Yes (after waivers, anyway) and no, respectively.
Maybe Haskins and Manziel join up and start a “nightclub”…
partying in the corner doing lines of snow snd ps. lol smoking a joint.
They all get a 2nd chance. So Cowboys n Raiders take everyone in.
It will be his 3rd or 4th chance when the Boys and Raiders get involved
Dan Snyder’s scouting is a bit suspect.
He played well for one year at Ohio State and got exposed by Purdue as not that good. However, the runaway hype machine surrounding him got him over drafted. Good thing he has an Ohio State education to fall back on!