I saw a tweet sometime around Thanksgiving saying that Nate Orchard had been signed by the Redskins.
The name sounded familiar, but I couldn’t immediately connect it to a player I knew anything about, and mentally filed it under “roster churn associated with Kerrigan being in the concussion protocol”. Then it hit me. I had seen Nate Orchard on the 2018 version of Hard Knocks, and had become emotionally invested in his fight to make the Cleveland Browns team.
He’d bounced in and out of the lineup during his time with the Browns, showing desirable speed off the edge but never making a consistent impact.