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Ex-Washington Redskins general manager Bruce Allen wasn’t popular when he was with the team from 2010-2019, and he’s certainly not popular now.
Redskins head coach Ron Rivera joined local radio host Kevin Sheehan to discuss the team’s offseason on Wednesday, and revealed the team’s process of trading seven-time Pro Bowl left tackle Trent Williams to the 49ers, who was acquired for a 2020 fifth-round pick and 2021 third-round pick (if he leaves, he will probably be compensated with a 2022 third-round pick).
“It was really about value. We had set what we thought was the right type of value for who he is as a football player,” Rivera said. “He’s a dynamic left tackle, a guy that’s got good years left and some of the teams we talked to knew that, but we weren’t going to give him away in a yard sale. This is a guy we just felt we deserved more for and we held out for the right deal. We had a couple that fell through. There was a little too much give, we felt, on our part, to move him because of his value. Again, he’s a quality football player.”
Sheehan followed up, asking, “Without the context, though, Ron, what would he have been worth?”
Rivera was quick to respond, and throw some shade towards the previous regime.
“I know this much. There was an opportunity from what I was told that last year, just before the trade deadline, he was worth a first-round pick,” Rivera said. “But for whatever reason, the deal was never done. But because he didn’t play for the year, somehow that number changed.”
The start of Rivera’s first answer is around the 24-minute mark.
