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After two years of great drafts, Washington declined steeply in 2021

The Red Commandants are well into the 2022 offseason, and now is the time for us to reflect back on what went well, and what didn’t, during the last offseason. Given the influx of new faces in the front office last year, this takes on a particular relevance.

How did our guys do last year? General Manager Martin Mayhew was brought on in January 2021, and immediately went to work planning for the draft. Marty Hurney, the executive vice president of football for player personnel, was brought on later in the month as Mayhew’s right-hand man, and “a guy who likes to sit in the stands and scout college players.