The Redskins Blog

Rookie Spotlight: Richard Crawford

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on cornerback Richard Crawford.

Richard Crawford wants a championship, and he’ll do anything to get it.

That’s what the Redskins’ rookie cornerback said late last week when we caught up with him after a morning walk-through practice.

And Crawford — the team’s seventh-round selection out of SMU — has had a strong showing in training camp so far, showing just how bad he wants to claim that eventual title.

“I want to do whatever I can to help us with a championship this year,” Crawford said. “That’s my mindset. Coach Shanahan, when we talked about it before he drafted me, I told him that’s what I’m here to do.”

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Rookie Spotlight: Tom Compton

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on offensive tackle Tom Compton.

Tom Compton has seen a few of his fellow offensive linemen battle through injuries as his first training camp gets underway.

But Compton — the Redskins’ sixth-round pick out of South Dakota — doesn’t think about when his number might be called to fill in a hole along the line.

That’s because he’s too busy thinking about improving each day. Worrying about his spot in the rotation, Compton said, is for the birds.

“Regardless of if guys go down or not, you always have the mindset that you’re just one or two plays away from stepping in,” Compton said this week after a morning walk-through practice at Redskins Park. “So you have to be preparing so well to be in the position that, whether guys go down or not, you focus on what you’re doing to make yourself the best you can be.”

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Rookie Spotlight: Alfred Morris

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on running back Alfred Morris.

A majority of those currently on the Washington Redskins’ training camp roster are enjoying the luxury of carrying around an iPad playbook instead of the ultra-heavy, ultra-clunky traditional paper playbook that is contained within a large binder.

Not rookie running back Alfred Morris.

Though Morris loves the latest technology as much as the next man, the sixth-round pick out of Florida Atlantic said nothing beats the simple pen-and-paper approach.

“I like taking notes,” Morris said this week after a walk-through morning practice at Redskins Park. “Like going over a play, I like writing notes on that play — if we’re talking about a certain play — I like writing notes on that play so I can come back to it, so I know where it’s at and I can flip through and find it whenever I need a refresher.”

It’s that simple approach that has pushed Morris — sought more as a linebacker than a rusher out of high school — into the Redskins’ training camp rotation of running backs.

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Rookie Spotlight: Adam Gettis

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on guard Adam Gettis.

Washington Redskins’ rookie guard Adam Gettis first played organized football his freshman year in high school and developed into a two-star prospect not recruited to play by many big colleges.

Fast forward five years later, and Gettis is the fifth-round selection of the Redskins in April’s NFL Draft.

It’s been a whirlwind experience that even Gettis said he can’t believe sometimes.

“You don’t think it’s going to happen,” Gettis said Monday after the Redskins’ morning walk-through practice. “Being a two-star guy, you don’t think those guys are going to make it, but it’s all about work and opportunity and you have to take advantage of those types of things.”

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Rookie Spotlight: Keenan Robinson

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on linebacker Keenan Robinson.

I don’t want to start making crazy claims here, but the Redskins Blog’s Rookie Spotlight might indicate good luck that day for the player featured.

Take today’s subject, linebacker Keenan Robinson, for example. On Saturday, I talked with Robinson after the team’s first walk-through practice of the day. In the afternoon open practice, Robinson promptly made a great play and snagged an interception across the middle.

Coincidence? That’s not up for me to decide.

Anyway, Robinson — who was selected by the Redskins out of Texas in the fourth round of April’s NFL Draft — is a really nice, laid back guy who gave me some good perspective on his rookie season with the Redskins.

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Rookie Spotlight: Kirk Cousins

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on quarterback Kirk Cousins.

He was shocked upon learning the Washington Redskins had selected him in the fourth round of April’s NFL Draft.

But since that time, rookie quarterback Kirk Cousins said he has really enjoyed his first few months with the Redskins, and feels he has the ideal situation in front of him to grow and develop as a quarterback in the National Football League.

Cousins on Thursday afternoon participated in his first professional training camp practice, which he chalked up to a learning experience.

“It went well,” Cousins said Friday after the team’s morning walk-through session in the Redskins’ Indoor Training Facility. “Definitely a lot of learning taking place, mistakes being made as a rookie which is to be expected, but a dream come true to be a part of an NFL training camp, a very exciting opportunity — just gotta get used to that heat going forward.”

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Rookie Spotlight: Josh LeRibeus

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on guard/center Josh LeRibeus.

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