The game of will-the-Redskins-sign-recently-released-player isn’t always worth playing. There are too many players who get released; they can’t and won’t have interest in someone just because: A) they have a big name and B) they are currently free.
But sometimes it makes sense to play the game, such as in the case of Chicago running back Matt Forte. Now, he wasn’t released, but it was announced Friday that the Bears won’t be re-signing him. And, yes, that means the Redskins, of course, could sign him. I don’t know that he will, but I will analyze why it makes sense -- and why it doesn’t.