The Washington Redskins/Football Team/Commanders/INSERT NAME HERE have been looking for a franchise quarterback since the halcyon days of Robert Griffin III and Kirk Cousins (both selected in the 2012 draft), and they may just have the solution to that long problem in second-year man Sam Howell, taken in the fifth round of the 2022 draft out of North Carolina.
Howell’s collegiate career was odd. He looked like a first-round talent in 2020, when he completed 237 of 348 passes for 3,586 yards, 30 touchdowns, and seven interceptions. Then in 2021, Howell was without his top two receivers (Dyami Brown and Dazz Newsome) and his top two running backs (Javonte Williams and Michael Carter), who had all left for the NFL. He still played decently, completing 217 of 347 passes for 3,056 yards, 24 touchdowns, and nine interceptions, and become more of a runner, but it seemed that the NFL had downgraded him.
