The Washington Redskins knew they needed to re-sign Junior Galette. Now they just need to hope he’s the same player he was before his Achilles injury.
If that’s the case, and Galette is confident he will be, then he’ll provide what they lacked in 2015: a consistent, quality pass rush.
“Coming off an Achilles, for a guy with explosion, it’ll be interesting,” Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan said last week. “That’s why the one-year deal from our standpoint made sense. Does he still have the same twitch, the same ability to get upfield, which I believe he does.