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What’s up at WR for Washington? Need to Know: Hidden factors will decide many Redskins roster battles | NBC Sports WashingtonNeed to Know: Many focus on splash plays when trying to figure out which players will make the final cut. But the deciding factors go much deeper than that.Morgan Moses named Redskins offensive player of the year for 2017 | Sports | richmond.comWASHINGTON - The Washington Redskins announced their players of the year at the annual "Welcome Home Luncheon" on Wednesday Authentic Josh Doctson Jersey , an event that celebrates the end of training camp.No apostrophe, no hype, no problem for Washington Redskins Daron Payne - Washington Redskins Blog- ESPNThe Redskins' quiet first-rounder plans to let his play do the talking as he anchors a young and promising defensive front.Sitting starters in the preseason has never worked out for Redskins coach Jay Gruden - The Washington PostSending out the first-team offense against Baltimore would send a strong statement, but Gruden won't do it.Redskins optimistic about defensive line despite starters having not played together in preseason - The Washington PostRedskins have Matt Ioannidis back, but starters on defensive line won't play together in a preseason game.875 pounds of fish, 54 dozen eggs and a kombucha machine: A week feeding an NFL team - The Washington PostThe Redskins, one of 20 NFL teams with a full-time sports dietitian, place a premium on players’ meal planning.Washington Redskins 53 Man roster breakdown: Offense | Fanspeak.com With some extra late round picks for next season, the Redskins may even look to trade for someone at the bottom of another team’s depth chart.Washington Redskins 53 Man roster breakdown: Defense | Fanspeak.com While Vigil was the better LB last year and a bit more versatile, Spaight has outplayed him every week of the preseason. I think right now, that puts Spaight in the lead for the final spot.100 Yards: Alex SmithRedskins Quarterback Alex Smith goes 100 yards with Redskins.com's Perry Mattern.Connor Jessop Doesn't Have To Travel Far For First NFL ExperienceThe Broad Run High School alum is staying with his parents after signing with the Redskins on Sunday, preparing to play on Thursday if the team needs him.Redskins position battle: What's up at wide receiver? | NBC Sports WashingtonBrian Quick and Cam Sims are both battling for a roster spot before cuts come Saturday.PHOTOS: Ravens Week Practice (8/28/18)Check out these photos of the Redskins' preparing for their Preseason Week 4 game against the Baltimore Ravens Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, at the Inova Sports Performance Center at Redskins Park.Two key Redskins offensive players on track to play Week 1 | NBC Sports WashingtonTwo important Redskins offensive players have not played at all in the preseason, but both should be ready to go in Week 1 against the Cardinals.Reasons for concern about the 2018 Redskins | NBC Sports WashingtonThe Redskins upgraded a number of positions over the offseason but areas that merit concern remain. Here is a look at five of them.As roster cuts loom on Saturday, Redskins’ bubble players try to avoid playing ‘tight’ - The Washington PostWashington has one final preseason game before cuts are due by 4 p.m. on Saturday.Redskins' Kapri Bibbs not stressing about cutdown day | 106.7 The FanBibbs is competing with Rob Kelley, Samaje Perine and Byron Marshall for backup RB spots.Terez Paylor: Redskins' Jay Gruden and Alex Smith 'a match made in heaven' | 106.7 The FanTerez Paylor believes everyone's underestimating Alex Smith and the Redskins.Sitting starters in the preseason has never worked out for Redskins coach Jay Gruden - The Washington PostSending out the first-team offense against Baltimore would send a strong statement, but Gruden won't do it.Chris Thompson, Jordan Reed of Washington Redskins on track for season opener at Arizona CardinalsRedskins running back Chris Thompson is "ready to go" and tight end Jordan Reed is "on pace" for the team's season opener at Arizona, head coach Jay Gruden said Monday.Three Redskins moves that shouldn't surprise you on cutdown day | 106.7 The FanBe in the know as cutdown day approaches. Craig Hoffman has three roster moves Redskins fans should look out for.The preseason finale matters for roster hopefuls, but maybe not as much as you think | NBC Sports WashingtonFans tend to put a ton of stock in the preseason finale. But Jay Gruden and some roster hopefuls don't necessarily hold it in the same regard.Rob Kelley Youth Trent Williams Jersey , Samaje Perine ready for competition in Redskins preseason finale | NBC Sports WashingtonAdrian Peterson's arrival has shrunk the roster space at RB. That means preseason Game 4 on Thursday is an important one for Samaje Perine, Rob Kelley and Kapri Bibbs.Special teams make the difference in 4 roster battles for Redskins 53 | NBC Sports WashingtonVersatility helps fringe roster players. Watching the fourth preseason game, keep an eye out for guys that are on the field in a lot of different places. The coaches will be.Simmie Cobbs Jr. And Darvin Kidsy Provided A Late Spark Against Denver Preparing For Final ImpressionsThe young wide receivers helped break Washington's scoreless drought in the end zone on Friday, jolting the offense to life and inserting some more question marks into the wide receiver battle.Under the Radar Players who still have a shot to make the 53 man roster | Fanspeak.com Holtz handled fullback duties in the 3rd preseason game with Peterson and the Redskins had some success on those runs. It’s something they at least need to consider and could end up with Holtz finally making a 53 man roster.Predicting the 2018 NFC East winner & losers: consolidating the position rankings Over the past two weeks, I’ve posted several articles about position groups, asking Hog’s Haven members to rank those position groups & head coaches in the NFC East.It was nice to see commenters (mostly) put away the tendency to root for the home team and try to be (somewhat) objective.Burgundy-colored glasses certainly had an effect, but it was more akin to a halo effect, where — when it was close -- the advantage went to the home team.Overall, though, commenters were pretty fair in their assessments.At a time of year when NFL blogs struggle to offer anything to readers, and when comments on most NFL-related articles number in the dozens and often don’t muster more than a single-digit total of comments, Hogs Haven members really came through on these ranking articles.We’ve seen between 1,000 and 3,000 votes on each of the various polls, and the 10 ranking articles had a total of 1,700 comments!Given that I merely posed the questions, and the comments sections supplied the answers, this is a wonderful example of reader-driven content.Now that the series is finished, to wrap it up and try to put a bow on it, I wanted to put the many rankings on a chart to consolidate them and see what they said about the expectations for the coming season among the Hog’s Haven members.Unfortunately, there’s nothing really straightforward about doing that.I would have liked to have used the raw poll results to establish the rankings by position, but that would have been unlikely to reflect the reality of the situation or the opinions of the readers accurately. Instead Ryan Kerrigan Jersey , I started with the idea that when you rank the teams from 1 - 4, there are 10 position points to give out (1+2+3+4=10).I decided that the basic idea should be to allocate the 10 points across each position ranking, allowing ties between teams wherever it seemed appropriate.The rule was that the 4 rankings had to add up to 10 points.For each position ranking, I looked first at the poll results, but then leavened them by taking into account the comments section to establish general rankings.Finally I added a dash of something — common sense,balance, judgement, normalization... I’m not sure what to call it.Basically, I just tried to make sure that the final rankings weren’t unreasonably skewed by the raw voting results.A few things were obvious when I looked at the results of the polls and the content of the comments sections.Firstly, it’s a Redskins website, so there’ll be a significant Redskins bias.Secondly, reading the comments section made it clear that the Eagles fans had showed up in bigger numbers than the Giants fans, and the Cowboys groupies almost hadn’t showed up at all.The other thing that I found from this exercise is that recency bias plays a role. Using the recent past to project the futureThe power of recency bias is intense in the business of sports prediction.For example, last year, in the wake of the Giants’ 11-5 season and the Eagles’ 7-9 finish, Hog’s Haven voters largely put the Giants at the top of the voting and the Eagles near the bottom.This year, following the 2017 Super Bowl win for Philly and the Giants’ 3-13 meltdown, things were turned around.The results of the voting, in light of all the factors that influenced them, were not surprising.When I consolidated the voting, the comments and some personal judgement, and blended it all together Cheap Trent Williams Jersey , here’s what I came up with:Unsurprisingly, the Eagles came out with the best average ranking following their Superbowl win.The Eagles were rated either a clear first place or tied for first in 9 of the 11 rankings.Further, they were ranked last in only a single position group — running back.The Eagles, when all the position group rankings were averaged, had the best ranking at 1.8, indicating that readers are expecting them to, once again, win the division title.The Redskins, with a composite score of 2.3, were ranked second by the readers.The real surprise is that they weren’t ranked 1st by Hog’s Haven readers, but — as I mentioned above — the Eagles fans showed up in force to read, vote in, and comment on the articles in this series.The Redskins were in the top rank for only two position groups (OL and CB) and in both cases Washington was in a tie with at least one division rival.The real benefit for the Redskins was that they weren’t ranked #4 in any position group by the readers.The ‘Skins were typically ranked 2nd or 3rd.The Giants & Cowboys were routinely found in the 4th position in the individual position rankings in the series of articles on Hogs Haven, with the Giants being ranked as the worst in a position group 5 times, and the Cowboys bringing up the rear 6 times.The Giants could only muster 2 first place finishes (ties for WR & S), while the Cowboys had two uncontested first place rankings (RB & ILB) and tied with the Eagles and ‘Skins for the best ranking at the OL position.In the end, the unscientific analysis indicates that voters/commenters see a huge talent gap, with the Eagles clearly having the best roster, the Redskins second, and the Cowboys last.As is often the case, fans seem to be projecting the results from last season onto the season ahead, with a bit of a Redskins positive bias to push them up the rankings Youth Chase Roullier Jersey , and some Cowboys negative bias to push them down.Once again, given that these rankings were derived by asking opinions from Hogs Haven members, it’s no surprise that the Redskins came out ahead of both the Cowboys and the Giants.What is perhaps surprising is how much respect was given to the Eagles, though the evidence suggests that their fans ‘traveled’ to Hogs Haven and heavily influenced the voting, and participated in the comments.Giants and Cowboys fans had the same opportunity, of course, but — and this is especially true of Dallas fans — they simply weren’t here voting and commenting.I suspect that the Eagles fans, with their team having won their first-ever Lombardi Trophy, are staying more ‘plugged in’ through the offseason in an attempt to continue the celebration, and with anticipation of another successful season coming up.The overall message for the Redskins faithful from this series may be that the readers seem to think that the ‘Skins have enough to get to the playoffs, but that it will be as a wildcard team, not as division champs.Instead, they see the Eagles — returning the head coach and most of the starters — as the clear favorites to win the NFC East again in 2018.I’ll remind you that, last year, the same exercise ranked our division rivals in this order:GiantsCowboysEagleswhich is the exact opposite of their actual finishing positions in the 2017 division contest.The team we all seemed to expect to be the weakest in the division — the Eagles — ended up winning the Lombardi Trophy.The team that was projected to do the best — the Giants — started the season 0-4 even before the injuries really started to bite, and they never recovered.Final thoughtsIn the parity-driven NFL, last season doesn’t matter. Outside of the Patriots, there are very few teams that have shown a year-on-year consistency that would allow you to confidently project them as a playoff team year after year.As always, the NFL is a league of great parity; the NFC East remains (in my opinion) a division without a single dominant team; every season begins with the knowledge that anything is possible.And that’s why last year doesn’t matter for NFL teams, and why you’re allowed to be optimistic about the Redskins’ playoff chances this season. 2018 should be another great season for the division.Personally, I expect it to be a great season for the Redskins as well. Here are the links to the 2018 “Ranking the NFC East” articles:Quarterbacks & Running BacksWide ReceiversTight EndsOffensive LineSafetiesCornerbacksLinebackersEdge RushersDefensive LineHead Coach Wholesale NFL Jerseys