Shaun Alexander in the burgundy and gold?

by Skin Patrol on Oct 13, 2008 9:07 PM EDT

Was news to me after reading this Fanpost via Romans12, confirmed at Redskins Insider:

Shaun Alexander, the former NFL rushing champ and MVP, is heading to Washington for a workout on Tuesday, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

The reason for this is, of course, the injury to Ladell Betts. Fortunately it doesn't appear to be that cereal, with the Jasons reporting "sources with knowledge of the situation" claim this knee injury is of the two-week downtime variety. Without the foggiest idea on what Shaun Alexander would cost the team under contract, I'm unwilling to say signing him to help the team out in Betts' absence is all that good or bad of an idea. I do agree with reader joshp:

when youre bringing in someone and you need him to contribute right away, already knowing the system is a big deal.

(Although I hope he's wrong about Betts being on his way to IR.)

Hindsight being 20/20 and all that, maybe we should've just found a way to keep Marcus Mason on the team? Naw?

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Somebody correct me...or go with it

But since Marcus Mason is still only a practice squad player with the Baltimore Ravens then he’s available to be signed to the active roster of ANY team with the only stipulation is the Ravens could put him on the 53 man-roster to block the move.
Maybe as a hard runner as he was there was some fact to his inability to learn the system which could explain why he is not being considered at this point…either that or it is a short term opportunity which would handcuff the Redskins when Betts returns.

by dr WNC on Oct 13, 2008 10:07 PM EDT reply actions