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Byline: Sam Fortier For the first time since the strike-shortened season of 1982, the NFL did not schedule the Washington Redskins in prime time. The team will play in Dallas [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Despite inheriting a team that went 3-13 last season, Washington Redskins Coach Ron Rivera has started rebuilding the roster in a way that not only has drawn [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The two Antonios first ran into each other in late February at the NFL scouting combine, where Antonio Gandy-Golden wore No. 17 and Antonio Gibson No. 18. [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier With the Washington Redskins' roster mostly assembled, the question becomes how the pieces fit together under Coach Ron Rivera. Since the NFL draft concluded Saturday night, the [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier;Les Carpenter In the span of about five minutes early Saturday afternoon, the Washington Redskins traded star left tackle Trent Williams and drafted a player who could potentially [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The Washington Redskins' strategy during the NFL draft mirrored their one from free agency: complement one big swing with versatile, understated role players. The Redskins snagged their [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier When Ron Rivera walks into his basement Thursday night for the NFL draft, he will have a football fan's dream setup. There's an 80-inch TV, a 60-inch [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier What new Washington Redskins coach Ron Rivera should do with the NFL draft's No. 2 pick has been debated since he was hired in late December. Should [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier What Ron Rivera does with the NFL draft's No. 2 pick will be one of the most important decisions of his first year as the Washington Redskins' [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier When Ron Rivera considered the Washington Redskins' coaching job, one of the things he noticed was the team's age. The roster wasn't just one of the NFL's [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier After building short-term depth in free agency, the Washington Redskins are looking for long-term contributors in next week's NFL draft. Coach Ron Rivera understands the urgency of [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Early on Tuesday, watching 'CBS This Morning,' Washington Redskins Coach Ron Rivera glimpsed his future. The broadcast was somewhat normal, with news anchors tossing to reporters for [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier In the Washington Redskins' remade secondary, two 26-year-olds on one-year contracts are returning home and feeling like they have something to prove. Ronald Darby, the former Philadelphia [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier When Kendall Fuller walks back into the Washington Redskins' locker room for the first time, he won't be bitter. The cornerback understands why others might think he [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The last quarterback to start for Ron Rivera's Carolina Panthers is building a case to be the first to start for Ron Rivera's Washington Redskins. Kyle Allen [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Days after trading away their top outside cornerback, the Washington Redskins added a low-risk, high-reward depth option in Ronald Darby. The team agreed with Darby on a [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier In free agency, the first stage of his rebuild, Ron Rivera failed to land a splashy signing but accomplished several things. The Washington Redskins will prioritize building [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter;Sam Fortier The long standoff between Trent Williams and the Washington Redskins took yet another turn Thursday, when the star left tackle's agent said 'there is no relationship' [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Ron Rivera's quest to provide the Redskins with flexible roster options continued Wednesday by signing wide receiver Cody Latimer and offensive lineman Jeremy Vujnovich. The team agreed [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier;Les Carpenter The agent for aggrieved Washington Redskins left tackle Trent Williams escalated his client's demands to be traded or released Tuesday in a statement sent to reporters. [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The Washington Redskins cut starting free safety Montae Nicholson on Monday afternoon, ending the third-year pro's tenure with the team, which included a pair of off-field incidents. [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier In a move that will give new coach Ron Rivera extra flexibility, the Washington Redskins added another running back Tuesday afternoon: They signed Peyton Barber to a [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Deepening their position of greatest strength, the Washington Redskins re-signed defensive lineman Caleb Brantley on Monday afternoon. The 25-year-old missed most of last season with a foot [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder granted absolute power to Ron Rivera this offseason in a new, coach-centric model for the team, and Rivera has responded with restraint [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier After an exhaustive recruiting process, one that included a categorized spreadsheet, top local college football prospect Caleb Williams has narrowed his choices to five universities. The Gonzaga [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Quinton Dunbar finally got what he wanted Monday evening. After three months of demanding to be traded or released in lieu of a contract extension, Dunbar was [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter;Sam Fortier The Washington Redskins reached an agreement to sign ex-Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas, a person with knowledge of the move said Thursday. Thomas, a fourth-round pick [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter;Sam Fortier The Washington Redskins' two free agent additions Wednesday were nods to the past, agreeing to contracts with safety Sean Davis -- a former Maryland and Maret [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier;Les Carpenter Free agency has started relatively slowly for the Redskins. As other NFL teams burst into the initial hours of the open negotiating window, Washington instead agreed [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter;Sam Fortier On the first day NFL teams could talk to free agents, the Washington Redskins reached agreements to bring back linebacker Jon Bostic and add guard Wes [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Ron Rivera's big-picture plan to rebuild the Washington Redskins starts with small steps. In two early tests -- free agency next week and the NFL draft in [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Brandon Scherff has long employed a lips-zipped approach toward contract negotiations, but his situation soon could be brought into the open. The window for the Washington Redskins [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier In the home for which his family had sacrificed a great deal -- not once but twice -- Darrell Stewart Jr. sat waiting. He eyed his phone [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The cement buckets weigh about 35 pounds. There are two of them, plastic white, with ropes snaking from the center and knotting into handles. They were built [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Washington Nationals are going to look more like the Washington Nationals pretty soon. The team is returning from its second-to-last off-day [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The days were sticking together in the humid, South Florida heat. Players were jogging on the hamster wheel of early morning workouts, [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Washington Nationals hitting coach Kevin Long is fine-tuning the swing of Victor Robles. The pair first tinkered early last year, when pitchers [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Washington Nationals want Wander Suero to throw fewer strikes. If that seems counterintuitive, consider what it sounds like to Suero. For [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- When Daniel Hudson took the mound for his first appearance of spring training, he wasn't remembering October. He went back further, all [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- This is March, as our college basketball friends say, so there will soon be baseball games that count. The Washington Nationals are [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The two pitchers weren't household names. They weren't major leaguers. They weren't even early-round draft picks when the Washington Nationals selected them [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Starlin Castro noticed the difference when he walked into the Washington Nationals' team dining room. Players were eating together, talking and laughing. [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- For the first time since October, Stephen Strasburg was back on a mound in a real game. The Washington Nationals right-hander looked, [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- What could be one of the final hand grenades in the spring training war of words over the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier;Jesse Dougherty WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The first time Yan Gomes felt baffled by the Washington Nationals' complicated anti-sign-stealing techniques came during the National League Championship Series. [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier;Cindy Boren;Adam Kilgore;Jesse Dougherty Two Houston Astros players expressed shame for the sign-stealing scandal that has engulfed Major League Baseball and owner Jim Crane promised greater control, saying [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The defining moment of Colin Kaepernick's long-awaited, hotly debated workout last month was a deep ball down the left sideline that sailed through the Georgia sky and [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier;Les Carpenter PHILADELPHIA -- Cameras encircled Washington Redskins running back Adrian Peterson. Until Sunday, when the team didn't play him in its season-opening loss to the Eagles, it [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Jimmy Moreland saw the kick returner break loose and burst into pursuit. It was late in the first quarter of the Washington Redskins' final preseason game, and [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier Free safety Montae Nicholson looked over at strong safety Landon Collins and adjusted a few steps. The Washington Redskins rarely, if ever, disguised coverages last season, so [...]