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Twenty-one players who are currently under contract to the Redskins will become free agents at the start of the new league year if they aren’t re-signed or extended.
Free agency decisions are usually fairly straightforward, with a limited number of surprises, but the decisions on a few players (notably quarterbacks and running back Chris Thompson) may be a bit harder to project if Jay Gruden fails to surprise, and gets fired sometime between next week and “Black Monday”.