Consider the Redskins’ quarterback situation back in December of last year, and you’ll get an idea of how important the guy wearing Joe Theismann’s No. 7 this weekend has become.
Alex Smith suffered a compound fracture in his right leg four days before Thanksgiving. Backup QB Colt McCoy broke his leg two weeks later. Mark Sanchez, who was signed off the street to a one-year contract after Smith went down, started in Week 14, and then journeyman QB Josh Johnson, who hadn’t played since 2011, took the reins for the last three weeks of the season.