Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera said long snapper Camaron Cheeseman’s bad snaps were a concern last week.
“Well, it is a concern more than anything else,” Rivera said. “And so we’ll just continue to have Camaron snap, and until, unfortunately, something happens, then we’ll decide from there. But right now, we’re handling it; we’re putting the ball through the upright, which is most important. And I believe it’s just something that he’s working out.”
Buy Commanders TicketsSomething did happen in Washington’s Week 2 game at Denver. After the Commanders’ first drive ended in a field-goal attempt, Cheeseman’s snap skidded back to holder Tress Way, and kicker Joey Slye missed the field goal. On some of Cheeseman’s previous bad snaps, Way has been able to rescue him. This time, it cost Washington three points.
Fortunately for Cheeseman, the Commanders ended up defeating the Broncos, and he had no more issues for the remainder of the game.
However, Rivera, true to his word, is looking at other options. Washington will bring in multiple long snappers to Ashburn for a workout on Tuesday. Here’s what Rivera had to say.
“The biggest thing, more than anything else, was a little disappointed in the very first snap,” Rivera said. “It’s crazy because you go back and look at the rest of his snaps, and they were pretty good, but this is something we have to do because it can’t happen every week because it could cost you a game. It really could have.”
Rivera then discussed bringing in some contingency options.
“Part of it is you don’t want it to affect anybody else,” he said. “If we look at it that, hey, we need to have an insurance policy, if we need to do something, we’re going to do it because it’s what’s best for this football team. That’s what we’re looking at. We’ve talked about some options. One of the options is we’re going to have a little information gathering tomorrow. We’re going to bring in a few players, give them an opportunity to show us what they’re capable of, and we’ll take a look and go from there.”
Two of the names the Commanders are bringing in are Tucker Addington via John Keim of ESPN and Jake McQuaide via Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post.
McQuaide, 35, spent 10 years with the Rams before spending the past two seasons with the Cowboys. Addington, 26, has spent time with three different franchises, appearing in three games.
It sounds like Rivera is giving Cheeseman another chance to keep his job but is going to have a list of players ready in case of another bad snap in the coming weeks.
