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Washington Football Team exercises Daron Payne’s fifth-year option

Washington Football Team DL Daron Payne. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)

The Washington Football Team’s greatest asset is its defensive front, and it seems as though they’re aiming to keep the group together as long as they can.

The Washington Football Team first started amassing building blocks on the defensive line back in 2016.

Unbeknownst to even themselves, they drafted a future standout in the fifth round that year, named Matt Ioannidis. The next year, the board fell their way in Round 1, and they managed to get top-rated defensive tackle Jonathan Allen at No.