Brandon Scherff is unlikely to have a long-term deal in hand by Thursday’s deadline (Twitter link via NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport). Barring any changes, the All-Pro guard will play out his second-straight franchise tag, now worth $18.04MM. 
The two sides have been at this for a while now. As a 2015 first-round pick, Scherff has been extension eligible for more than three years. Instead, Washington has seen another tag situation near the point of no return. As the Kirk Cousins standoff showed, a third tag is unrealistic. Now, Scherff is ticketed towards free agency in March of 2022.
Washington clearly wants to keep Scherff, but that would require a record-shattering deal for interior linemen. Currently, the mantle is held by Chiefs guard Joe Thuney, who inked his $16MM/year contract in March.
Scherff finds himself in a good spot, though he’d probably like the security of a long-term deal given his injury history. The All-Pro has missed a total of 18 games across the last four seasons, including an MCL issue that sidelined him for three games in 2020. On the flipside, he’ll be the belle of the ball if he stays healthy and enters free agency at a relatively young 30 years of age.
The WTFs had this dude and Trent Williams and are blow it with both….
Typical from that franchise.
Washington held onto both of those guys longer than they should have but perhaps you believe they should have kept Jay Gruden as well.
Go self fornicate.
Enjoy the last year of tag, another contract year for Scherff. Anticipate that his play will fall off in the next few years due to injuries and age and realise that you had the best years without mortgaging the future pointlessly.
Prepare to scout thoroughly and draft some more offensive linemen every year.
Charles is being groomed to replace him. There was at least a back-up plan in place this time.
~Kinda sad; only Bc He’d made it Seem that he’d been intent on ‘Retiring’ a Skin; or w/ WFT. C’est la vie: Mountain Man!!