2010 Redskins Final Cutdown

Defense:

DL (8) -- Golston, Haynesworth, Carriker, Kemoeatu, Daniels, Holliday, A. Bryant, Jarmon
LB (8) -- Fletcher, McIntosh, Orakpo, Carter, Blades, Riley, Alexander, Wilson
CB (5) -- Rogers, Hall, Buchanon, Barnes, Westbrook
S (4) -- Landry, Doughty, Horton, Moore

That's 25 on Defense.

I think we may need a LB and WR. If we sign a WR another one goes off our roster.

With losing Henson, I think we need to get a solid ILB to go along with the current group. Blades cannot be trusted in the new scheme. He cannot even make a tackle anymore.

Blades, Wilson, Westbrook, Alexander, and Riley will all be big on special teams coverage.

Wow all our 7th round picks got cut. Only goes to show you why you should do all you can to keep your first and second rounders.

Well, they will most likely go to the practice squad, and when we go to 18 games, and increase the roster, they will make the team!

Offense:

QB (3): McNabb, Grossman, Beck
RB (5): Portis, Johnson, Williams, Sellers, Young
WR (6): Moss, Armstrong, Thomas, Galloway, Williams, Banks
TE (2): Cooley, Davis
OL (8): Trent Williams, Dockery, Rabach, Hicks, Brown, Lichtensteiger, Heyer, Will Montgomery

That's 24 on offense. Room for one more. Will Montgomery is the lone Groundhog Day inclusion. Anthony Bryant the other real surprise on defense.

Logan Paulsen is listed on Ryan O'Halloran's 53 man. I've seen him listed as a confirmed cut for many hours.

Redskins Set 53-Man Roster (http://www.csnwashington.com/09/04/10/Redskins-Set-53-Man-Roster/landing.html?blockID=304534&feedID=287)

If we still have Paulsen, that's a full roster.

Rich_Campbell

So it does. Tryon (traded) is not on the list. nRT @JoeWebDesign: @Rich_Campbell If you read the article, it states Paulsen made the team 2 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Wow, can getting to 53 be anymore complicated

yep... 21 players cut and 1 traded.

Logan Paulsen makes the team. Thanks Gtripp for pointing out the guys I missed.

We did a poor job selecting offensive lineman. Period. We were a better team if you gave us a random ten-man OL from the 80 man roster than we are now. This team has Rabach, Hicks, and Will Montgomery on it. That's bad, and it's worse when you realize we cut people to get to that.

Lichtensteiger is going to be good for this team, but he can't start at both RG and C AND be the third TE. We have little behind Rabach/Hicks. I didn't think we needed to keep more than eight, necessarily, but I also didn't think our solution to having a log jam of interior OL prospects was to cut them all.

I think we did well at wide receiver. We have a good balance between special teamers, speedsters, and route running technicians. We kept all the keeper WRs we had, possible exception to Terrence Austin, who probably isn't going too far if we need him. I like keeping Darryl Young a lot as the (season-)long term project at FB. And I think they did as well as they could have with the RBs. Torain is probably better than Johnson, but the contract they gave to Johnson backed them into a corner. Williams was a keeper.

I think we might be a bit thin in the back seven, particularly in the secondary, but if we use Chris Horton to the best of his talents, we can get a package linebacker out of him, eliminating the need to keep more than eight. I don't know why Byron Westbrook has as many lives as he does. No idea.

In conclusion, I think we butchered the offensive line, while doing well elsewhere. Or in other words, kind of like last year.

At least there is the hope that bootlegs and the use of zone-blocking on pass plays can at least somwhat mitigate the awful we might experience should the starters go down.