The Redskins Blog

Lorenzo Alexander And Kedric Golston's Bike Ride Was A Success

Well, it’s been almost 48 hours since I wrote about Lorenzo Alexander doing something good for people, so this seems like a fine time to mention that Alexander and Kedric Golston‘s charity bike ride this past weekend was a success.

“It was a great event,” Alexander said after he returned from his 35 mile ride. “We had a good turnout for our first year, had about 75 riders out here. It was good — community coming together to help for the cause.”

Alexander was covered in sweat (as you can see above) and had clearly not taken the 35 mile ride lightly. “I had two women that pushed me the whole way,” he explained, “and I’m tired. I felt sick at the end — they were riding fast, and I haven’t been riding that much this offseason.” Read more »

Lendy Holmes Is Good At Every Sport (Besides Soccer)

There’s a lot of safety depth on the Redskins roster. You’ve got LaRon Landry, reportedly playing closer to the line of scrimmage this year. You’ve got Reed Doughty, one of the more underrated players in the entire league, and Chris Horton, who looked like an impact guy his rookie year before losing last season to injury. And you’ve got Kareem Moore, who impressed me a lot in the offseason mini-camps.

So it wouldn’t seem like there’s necessarily a roster spot for a Lendy Holmes. But Holmes has been around since last training camp, and one of the main reasons is that he’s an omni-talented athlete, even by NFL standards.

When offseason work started at Redskins Park, there was a group of guys that would regularly get together to play Around The World down on the basketball court. This seemed like it might make a decent blog item (although, obviously, it never panned out), and when I talked to the regular players, the same names kept coming up as the best shooters on the team: Carlos Rogers, DeAngelo Hall (which we knew), and … Lendy Holmes?

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