How the Redskins Can Become Contenders Again in 2015

January 13, 2015   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

For the third time in the last four years, the Washington Redskins are undergoing significant offseason changes.
In 2012, the Shanahan regime mortgaged its future on No. 2 overall pick Robert Griffin III. In 2014, Redskins brass foreclosed on that mortgage by dumping Mike and Kyle Shanahan and hiring a new head coach, Jay Gruden. Now in 2015, they've fired defensive coordinator Jim Haslett while tweaking the front office with the addition of new personnel czar Scot McCloughan. 
It's too early to tell if that means there's light at the end of the tunnel for a franchise that has finished in last place six of the last seven years and has lost 26 of its last 33 games, but at least it realizes there's a problem.
The good news is they enter the 2015 offseason possessing a first-round pick for the first time in three years. And per Over the Cap, they've got nearly $14 million in salary-cap space, with Brian Orakpo registering as their only notable impending free agen...

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