I was looking through the Redskins player list while working on a salary cap article last week, and I spotted a name — Marcus Smith.
Hmmm...
Was this some young kid signed on a futures contract? The name wasn’t ringing a bell, and I didn’t remember him playing for the Redskins before.
The problem was that he’s slated to make $805,000 with the Redskins this season. That’s no futures contract.
Smith?
I Googled his name, saw the first search return, and remembered that in the middle of the injury crisis last year the Redskins had signed a player, and everyone from Bleeding Green Nation came over to laugh at us for the depths to which we’d fallen.