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Whenever a team declines a player’s fifth-year option (as Washington did with Chase Young last month), a flare goes up around the league. In three short years, a player that the team thought worthy of a first-round pick has fallen in stature to the point that the team is willing to risk losing him at the end of his rookie contract.