There are a lot of explanations for why an NFL team picked up Reuben Foster this week, but maybe the most straightforward one is this: because it could. That’s not an excuse for Washington’s NFL team. But it is an indictment of the rest of us.
In the last week, Foster has been arrested, charged with domestic violence, released by the 49ers, claimed by Washington, and placed on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s Exempt List. Foster didn’t even have time to come up with a good tale of personal redemption. If this bothered us more, the team would not have done it.