10 teams that filled rosters holes and 5 that didn’t
The school soccer season is sort of midway completed, however we’ve sufficient of a pattern dimension for us to know a couple of issues by now.
Some prime applications (and shock risers) efficiently addressed obtrusive wants from 2025, whereas some fading contenders failed to take action. We’re speaking concerning the speeding assaults at Alabama and Oklahoma, the offenses at Clemson and Northwestern and the run protection at Utah. Did these items get mounted within the offseason? Are they any higher in 2026? And is the reply to that query a motive any of the above applications are any roughly in contention for the College Football Playoff as we hit Week 7?
For the aim of those evaluations, we excluded full-scale roster overhauls below first-year coaching staffs corresponding to Oklahoma State and UCLA. We additionally passed over applications that filled apparent holes. In this occasion, we gave Indiana no credit score for changing an elite quarterback and huge receiver combo with one other elite quarterback and huge receiver combo.
In the revenue-share and switch portal period, it has (theoretically) by no means been easier to address roster flaws. At the identical time, the implications of inaction or the unsuitable transfer have by no means been extra extreme. So which applications took care of their wants? And who fell quick? Let’s discover out.
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10 teams that addressed wants in 2026
Key 2025 stat: 104.1 speeding yards per sport, One hundred and twenty fifth in FBS
Need: Ways to enhance the run sport
What went proper: A revamped blocking unit below first-year offensive line coach Adrian Klemm? An energized operating again room powered by breakout freshman Trae’shawn Brown? The dual-threat capability of quarterback Keelon Russell? The actual root trigger solely issues a lot.
The backside line is that this: Alabama has a decent run sport once more, and it is a key a part of why this system seems to have its most legit nationwide title contender of the post-Saban period.
In 2025, the Crimson Tide’s speeding assault averaged simply 3.4 yards per carry (T-One hundred and twenty fifth nationally), logged fewer runs of 10-plus yards — 42 — than all however one different SEC offense and floundered within the postseason. Per ESPN Research, Alabama’s 104.1 yards per contest represented this system’s lowest speeding common since not less than 1956.
At the very least, these struggles gave coach Kalen DeBoer and his employees a mandate to hold out a correct offseason overhaul. Through six video games, throughout which the Tide have averaged 182.2 yards per contest (forty fourth nationally), it seems like they obtained the rebuild proper.
Alabama bolstered a younger offensive line with veteran transfers Racin Delgatty (Cal-Poly) and Jayvin James (Mississippi State) and added one other bodily blocker in former Oklahoma State tight finish Josh Ford. Russell’s mobility has helped, too; the ex-five-star recruit sits fourth in speeding yards amongst SEC quarterbacks (225). And a backfield unit led by junior Daniel Hill and a pair of freshmen — Brown and coveted 2026 signee EJ Crowell — is proving tough for opposing defenses to wrap up. Among FBS offenses, Alabama rushers now rank Seventeenth in yards after contact (737) and Twenty ninth in runs of 10-plus yards (34), per ESPN Research.
Key 2025 stat: 276.8 passing yards allowed per sport, 134th in FBS
Need: Players to enhance the move protection
What went proper: For all the eye rightly being paid to breakout move rushers Bryce Davis and Tyshon Reed, probably the most important growth for a Duke protection that ranks 14th in factors allowed (14.4 per sport) lies inside the program’s retooled secondary.
The Blue Devils managed to seize their first outright ACC title since 1962 final fall regardless of a move protection that completed 2025 lifeless final within the FBS within the following classes: yards allowed (3,875), first downs (172), completions of 20-plus yards (57) and yards after catch (2,137). Statistically, there weren’t many, if any extra quarterback-friendly secondaries within the nation.
Duke coach Manny Diaz turned to the portal for options. Among 5 veteran switch defensive backs to hitch the roster within the offseason, the Blue Devils added beginning cornerbacks Kyon Loud (Montana) and Dylan Flowers (Western Kentucky). Respectively, the pair ranks first and second in snaps amongst Duke defenders via 5 video games, establishing themselves alongside safeties DaShawn Stone — the lone returning starter in this system’s secondary — and Andrew Pellicciotta, the rising sophomore standout who leads this system with 27 tackles.
Diaz & Co. are getting loads of assist from a powerful entrance seven this fall. But limiting explosives — solely three ACC defenses have given up fewer completions of 20-plus yards thus far this fall — and sitting within the prime half of the nation in move protection (202.0 YPG), the Blue Devils’ refurbished secondary is considerably much less leaky in 2026.
Key 2025 stat: 27 sacks, 62nd in FBS
Need: Improved move rush
What went proper: It was simple to foretell that edge rusher Princewill Umanmielen would play a major half on LSU’s 2026 defensive position when he adopted Lane Kiffin from Ole Miss. Less of a given, nevertheless, was the distinguished position freshman defensive sort out Deuce Geralds has carved for himself, now pairing with Umanmielen as one the important thing items behind a reenergized Tigers move rush and what has emerged as one of many nation’s fiercest defensive strains this fall.
LSU possessed an ample defensive position final fall led by the likes of Jack Pyburn, Bernard Gooden and Dominick McKinley. But the Tigers struggled to transform sacks, and a run protection that regarded good on paper — LSU completed Thirty second nationally in speeding yards per sport — floundered in matchups with high quality SEC opponents, together with the losses to Ole Miss, Vanderbilt and Texas A&M that laid the trail to Brian Kelly’s late-October firing.
A 12 months later, the complexion has modified fully. Geralds, ESPN’s No. 2 defensive sort out within the 2026 cycle, asserted himself instantly this fall. Through six video games, he is tallied 14 tackles, 12 pressures and 5 sacks because the main snap-getter on a defensive position that ranks fifth in opposition to the run (74.5 YPG) and 14th in tackles for loss (52). Umanmielen, in the meantime, has picked up proper the place he left off at Ole Miss a 12 months in the past, supercharging the nation’s No. 2 move rush (23 sacks) with eight sacks of his personal that path solely Texas’ Colin Simmons for the nationwide lead.
LSU has gotten considerably higher on the road of scrimmage in Kiffin’s debut season. Geralds and Umanmielen, and the matchup nightmares they create, are an enormous motive why.
Key 2025 stat: 145.9 speeding yards per sport, eightieth in FBS
Need: Running again improve
What went proper: Unlike the earlier two seasons below coach Matt Rhule, the Huskers seem to have a legit, Big Ten run sport; via six video games, Nebraska sits third within the league and twenty sixth nationally in speeding (213.8 YPG). That Nebraska is off to its greatest begin since 2016 and practically managed to snap Indiana’s FBS-best 21-game win streak final weekend is probably going associated.
Credit, on this entrance, begins with freshman operating again Jamal Rule. The three-star signee from North Carolina is producing 6.8 yards per carry, fourth most amongst Big Ten rushers with not less than 50 carries, to the tune of 386 yards and 5 touchdowns to date. Throw in fellow operating again Mekhi Nelson and the cell switch quarterback Anthony Colandrea and the Huskers boast three harmful runners who’ve accounted for 12 of this system’s Big Ten-leading 16 speeding scores.
Nebraska has, importantly, gotten its offensive line below management. Rhule made a press release within the offseason when he employed Georgia Tech assistant Geep Wade to steer his offensive line. The Huskers stocked the place group with three new starting-level transfers between proper sort out Tree Babalade (South Carolina) and guards Brendan Black (Iowa State) and Paul Mubenga, and Wade is getting probably the most out of the expertise. Nebraska enters Week 7 ranked forty fourth in yards earlier than contact, up from 62nd a 12 months in the past; up to now, solely Indiana has recorded extra runs of 10-plus yards than Nebraska (41) amongst Big Ten offenses.
Key 2025 stat: 23.4 factors per sport, 98th in FBS
Need: Offensive upgrades
What went proper: Perhaps no offense within the nation has been extra exhilarating (and stunning) than the one first-year coordinator Chip Kelly is unveiling at Northwestern this fall. Not solely did the wing-T he deployed shred Penn State for 413 speeding yards final month, however his refreshed Wildcats offense seems to be rather more than a gimmick.
Of course, we’ve to think about the context right here. The program hasn’t completed within the prime half of the Big Ten in scoring offense since 2017. Just final 12 months, the Wildcats completed 98th nationally in scoring (23.4 PPG) and whole offense (346.1 YPG). If Kelly’s 35.4-points-per-game offense holds any type of actual endurance, he’ll have successfully exorcised practically a decade of Northwestern offensive futility within the span of simply 5 video games.
How has he carried out it? For starters, Kelly is getting the perfect out of Michigan State switch quarterback Aidan Chiles. The fourth-year passer is expertly main a posh offensive scheme, and doing so to the tune of a 9-0 touchdown-to-interception ratio and profession highs in completion share (71.4%) and yards per completion (10.5). That’s been the platform for the nation’s Thirty second-ranked speeding offense (203 YPG) and a trio of operating backs — Caleb Komolafe, Joseph Himon II and Florida State switch Gavin Sawchuk — averaging over 5.0 yards per carry.
Most of all, Northwestern makes huge performs. In 5 video games, the Wildcats have logged 53 explosive performs (runs of 10 yards or completions of 20 yards), greater than Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon and all however 31 different FBS applications. Per ESPN Research, that has Northwestern on tempo for, fairly actually, it is most explosive offensive season since not less than 2005.
Key 2025 stat: 188 passing yards per sport, 104th in FBS
Need: A greater passing sport
What went proper: The Tigers didn’t essentially battle to realize yards or put factors on the board final fall; the truth is, with the assistance of SEC speeding yards chief Ahmad Hardy, they ranked Thirty second in whole offense (416.3 YPG) and forty fourth in scoring (30.2). But the place Missouri fell quick was in its capability to successfully transfer the ball via the air, which is why the Tigers and quarterback Austin Simmons felt like an ideal marriage when the Ole Miss switch landed in Columbia.
Indeed, the big-armed passer is proving to be the perfect selection. Leaning on ex-Ole Miss teammate Cayden Lee and sophomore Donovan Olugbode, Simmons has accomplished 64.8% of his passes for 1,434 yards and 14 touchdowns to 1 interception throughout the Tigers’ 5-1 begin. In phrases of downfield passing, his 67 first downs rank 18th amongst FBS beginning quarterbacks, and solely six passers have accomplished extra throws of 20-plus yards than Simmons, who has 27. And crucially, Eli Drinkwitz and first-year offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey have saved Simmons’ propensity for turnover — he threw 5 interceptions on simply 75 makes an attempt at Ole Miss in 2025 — in verify.
For Missouri, Simmons has delivered not solely a considerably improved passing assault (256.5, forty fourth within the FBS) and scoring offense (35.8 PPG, thirty third within the FBS), however the mere menace of his arm has made life simpler on the Tigers’ run sport, too. Senior Jamal Roberts is pacing the SEC with 147 carries and 828 yards.
Key 2025 stat: 181.2 speeding yards per sport, one hundred and tenth in FBS
Need: Run protection upgrades
What went proper: The Utes journey to Colorado this weekend with the nation’s ninth-ranked run protection, limiting opposing offenses to 78.8 yards per sport. And contemplating that first-year head coach Morgan Scalley was calling this system’s protection final fall, it is not loopy to suppose that Utah was doubtless simply pretty much as good in opposition to the run in 2025.
Not so quick. In practically each aspect, the Utes’ smothering defensive position of 2026 is a very completely different image from a 12 months in the past.
Last season, opposing offenses gashed Utah for 150-plus yards on seven events, together with a staggering 472-yard speeding effort from Kansas State in November. All instructed, Scalley’s 2025 unit ranked one hundred and tenth nationally in run protection (181.2 YPG) and 129th in explosive runs after giving opposing rushers 80 carries of 10-plus yards. By distinction, a 12 months later, the Utes have allowed the fewest explosive runs of any Big 12 protection (13) via 5 video games. Per ESPN Research, there are solely seven FBS defenses tougher to maneuver the sticks on through the run this fall than the Utes’ protection, which has allowed first downs on simply 17.3% of the run performs it has confronted.
Utah’s swing has include a wholly new beginning defensive position unit. On the sting, North Texas switch Ethan Day and fifth-year move rusher Lance Holtzclaw, who has a team-best 5 run stops, are filling huge footwear within the wake of 11.5-sack edge John Henry Daley‘s departure to Michigan. In defensive tackles Karson Kaufusi and San Jose State switch Jireh Moe, the Big 12-contending Utes have a lead tandem that has held all 5 of their opponents to 111 speeding yards or fewer this fall.
Key 2025 stat: 19 sacks, one hundred and tenth in FBS
Need: Pass rushers
What went proper: Last fall, Virginia Tech started its season with Brent Pry on employees and completed the 12 months on the backside of the ACC in sacks and pressures. This fall, this system started its season with Pry on employees once more — this time as defensive coordinator — and via six video games, the Hokies boast a ferocious entrance seven that enters Week 7 tied for the nationwide lead in tackles for loss (75) and ranks fourth in sacks, having already matched the 2025 whole of 19.
For starters, the choice by first-year coach James Franklin to maintain Pry on campus has proved to be an early masterstroke. Ditto on his hiring of defensive position coach Sean Spencer, an ex-Penn State assistant who had spent the earlier 4 seasons within the SEC with Florida and Texas A&M. Pry and Spencer have restored the identical aggressive move rush that beforehand made Pry one of the coveted playcallers within the nation.
That course of started with the offseason retention of star defensive sort out Kemari Copeland, who leads all Virginia Tech defensive linemen with 16 tackles, together with 4 for loss. Elsewhere, the Hokies are getting manufacturing from some much less doubtless candidates, corresponding to breakout sack chief Aycen Stevens. All 5.5 of the senior move rusher’s profession sacks have come this fall, and Stevens is tied for nineteenth nationally with 18 pressures on the season. Reigning crew tackles chief Kaleb Spencer has gotten in on the enjoyable with a career-best three sacks, as have Penn State transfers Cortez Harris (5 sacks) and Mylachi Williams (three), on one of the surprisingly harmful move speeding items in school soccer this fall.
Key 2025 stat: 237.7 passing yards per sport, 58th in FBS
Need: A leap in QB play
What went proper: Coach Jake Dickert continues to carry out one of the spectacular teaching jobs within the nation, hanging on to a 14-5 file midway via his second season at Wake Forest. Perhaps the largest distinction for Dickert in Year 2 with the Demon Deacons is at quarterback, the place North Carolina switch Gio Lopez has kicked issues up a notch this fall.
In 2025, Lopez landed with Bill Belichick and the Tar Heels after a breakout 2024 marketing campaign at South Alabama. Stylistically, Lopez by no means fairly match the system North Carolina was working in a 12 months in the past. But when he entered the switch portal once more through the offseason, Wake Forest made for an ideal match. Who higher to reignite Lopez than Demon Deacons offensive coordinator Rob Ezell, the playcaller who helped launch him at South Alabama?
The reunion has been fruitful to date. Across a 5-1 begin, Lopez has totaled 1,680 passing yards that rank seventh amongst FBS quarterbacks with a 13-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio. Lopez’s 67.4% completion price is the very best of his profession, and with 202 speeding yards and six touchdowns on 56 carries, he is on tempo for profession highs in every class.
Wake Forest has made important strides on offense in 2026, thrusting the Demon Deacons into legit ACC title rivalry. On Saturday, Dickert takes Wake Forest to Cal with the nation’s No. 18 passing offense (290.5 YPG) and Twenty ninth-ranked scoring offense (37.2 PPG), all with an enormous serving to hand from a well-recognized quarterback-coordinator pairing.
Key 2025 stat: 160.6 speeding yards per sport, sixty fourth in FBS
Need: An improved speeding assault
What went proper: With quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. and operating again Cam Cook, the Mountaineers are reestablishing a well-recognized id in Year 2 of Rich Rodriguez’s second stint at West Virginia.
There was nothing particularly exceptional or attribute about Rodriguez’s run sport final fall, when the Mountaineers had been middle-of-the-pack in speeding yards (160.6 YPG) and close to the underside of the Big 12 in yards per carry (3.7). Things are quite completely different in 2026, nevertheless. Only one FBS program has two of the nation’s prime 10 rushers this fall. It’s West Virginia, which begins Week 7 with the nation’s fourth-ranked run sport, averaging 295.5 yards per sport.
Hawkins, who performed in 9 video games at Oklahoma from 2024 to 2025, has emerged as the highest speeding quarterback in school soccer following his offseason arrival to the Mountaineers. He’s degree with Florida operating again Jadan Baugh for the nationwide speeding landing lead (12) and ranks second amongst FBS rushers in first downs (33) and explosive runs (23). Cook, the nation’s speeding chief at Jacksonville State final fall, has saved it rolling in Morgantown, pacing the nation in carries (153) whereas sitting third in whole speeding (835) and yards after contact (465).
West Virginia’s passing sport is mediocre. It has the third-worst scoring protection within the Power 4. But when the ball is the arms of Hawkins or Cook, the Mountaineers are electrical once more.
5 teams that failed to handle wants in 2026
Key 2025 stat: 27.2 factors per sport, 72nd in FBS
Need: Offensive upgrades
What went unsuitable: After a 7-6 season in 2025, the Tigers wanted to get higher on offense in 2026. However, the Tigers are decidedly not higher on offense in 2026. In truth, they’ve gotten worse.
Coach Dabo Swinney may properly have made the correct name to half methods with former offensive coordinator Garrett Riley after Clemson’s scoring common dipped from 34.7 PPG to 27.2 PPG final fall. What should Swinney be fascinated by Chad Morris, again for his second stint calling the Tigers’ offense, as this system sits 119th in scoring (19.4 PPG) and whole offense (321.2 YPG) and tied with Central Michigan for the fewest passing touchdowns — two — of any FBS program? Clemson’s floor sport, nevertheless, is healthier in 2026, as much as ninety fifth (137.6 YPG) from a hundred and fifth (124.5) final fall.
And, within the curiosity of equity to Morris, it is price acknowledging the expertise at his disposal. The Tigers changed two-time ACC champion quarterback Cade Klubnik with unproven veteran Christopher Vizzina and a uncooked, if gifted, freshman quarterback in Tait Reynolds. Meanwhile, Clemson added simply two offensive gamers within the portal within the offseason, neither of them on the offensive line, the place the Tigers allowed 188 pressures in 2025, twelfth most nationally.
Yet once more, the choices Swinney and Clemson made within the winter are burning them within the fall.
Key 2025 stat: 3.5 yards per carry, a hundred and twentieth in FBS
Need: A speeding complement to John Mateer
What went unsuitable: Oklahoma made it again to the CFP final fall regardless of a middling offense that fielded the nation’s 113th-ranked speeding assault (118.5 YPG). That gave coach Brent Venables and offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle a transparent offseason precedence: To maximize quarterback John Mateer and take one other step ahead, the Sooners needed to kind out the run sport.
Plenty of effort went into that mission. Oklahoma employed veteran assistant Deland McCullough to educate operating backs and added a pair of latest rushers in Colorado State switch Lloyd Avant and touted four-star signee Jonathan Hatton Jr. Burly tight ends Rocky Beers (Colorado State) and Hayden Hansen (Florida) and 4 switch offensive linemen, headlined by former Arkansas sort out E’Marion Harris, got here through the portal, too.
Yet, it has been extra of the identical for Oklahoma this fall. In truth, thus far this season, this system’s backfield (and the blocking unit in entrance of it) is even much less dependable, and the Sooners are nonetheless overwhelmingly reliant on Mateer and the passing sport; per ESPN Research, 68.5% of their whole yards have come via the air this fall, the 18th most nationally.
It’s simple to know why.
Across 5 video games, Oklahoma has averaged 2.9 yards per try on the bottom, inserting the Sooners alongside Stanford for the bottom tally throughout the FBS. Some of the blame lies with the operating backs. While Avant has delivered modest manufacturing (236 yards and two touchdowns on 52 carries), the likes of Hatton and returners Tory Blaylock and Xavier Robinson have contributed even much less behind him. But it is also tough to look previous an offensive line that has develop into a revolving door for a 3rd consecutive season with accidents to former five-star offensive sort out Michael Fasusi and guards Heath Ozaeta and Eddy Pierre-Louis. Earlier this month, Venables known as the group “incredibly inconsistent.” Oklahoma’s 141 speeding yards earlier than contact this fall — the fewest within the SEC — help that declare.
This is not a brand new drawback for Venables’ Sooners; this system hasn’t had a 1,000-yard rusher since Eric Gray in 2022. But in failing to handle its largest legal responsibility, an Oklahoma offense that hasn’t exceeded 100 yards speeding in opposition to a Power 4 opponent this fall has clearly regressed.
Key 2025 stat: 43 sacks, No. 4 in FBS
Need: Reloaded move rush
What went unsuitable: It was all the time lofty to anticipate the Aggies to correctly substitute the manufacturing Cashius Howell, Dayon Hayes and Tyler Onyedim supplied a 12 months in the past. But one of many many obtrusive variations between Texas A&M in 2025 and Texas A&M in 2026 is the move rush, or a scarcity thereof.
Last fall, coach Mike Elko took the Aggies to their first playoff look with assist from an elite unit of defensive position. In 2025, led by Howell and his 11.5 sacks, they tallied extra sacks (43) and tackles (135) than all however three different FBS defenses in these respective classes. The move rush was one of many keys to a protection that held opposing passers to 176.6 yards per sport (sixteenth greatest within the FBS) and closed with the nation’s 18th-ranked scoring protection (32.7).
Fast-forward a 12 months and the Aggies’ move rush finds itself on the other aspect of the desk. Texas A&M tried to plug holes from inside and through the portal with additions corresponding to Northwestern edge rusher Anto Saka and Ryan Henderson from San Diego State, however the proof is obvious. With simply 5 sacks on the season, the tenth fewest within the nation, and 51 pressures that rank 99th nationally, the Aggies don’t get after the quarterback like they had been a 12 months in the past, and the swarming protection they leaned on in 2025 is not so stout.
Key 2025 stat: 278.5 passing yards per sport, Seventeenth in FBS
Need: Better QB play
What went unsuitable: Setting apart the circumstances of how we obtained right here, regardless of its greatest efforts, Texas Tech isn’t any higher at quarterback now than it was this time final 12 months.
Brendan Sorsby was alleged to be the quarterback to take the Red Raiders to the following degree after Behren Morton powered the nation’s Seventeenth-ranked passing offense in 2025. But coach Joey McGuire and his employees had been excessive on third-year passer Will Hammond earlier than Sorsby left this system, and that confidence remained when he turned QB1 this fall.
But, up to now, Hammond hasn’t delivered the type of punch Texas Tech hoped to get from its quarterback in 2026. In 5 begins, Hammond has accomplished 68.3% of his passes for 1,102 yards with 5 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. That touchdown-to-interception ratio is an issue, as is the Red Raiders’ lack of explosive performs within the passing sport; Texas Tech’s 15 completions of 20-plus yards rank 91st nationally. At the identical time final 12 months, the Red Raiders’ Morton-led offense had 27.
At the halfway level this fall, Texas Tech has the Seventy fifth-ranked passing assault within the nation (227.4 YPG). Without the identical takeaway-generating protection Texas Tech possessed in 2025, it is tough to see the Red Raiders going as deep into the postseason this fall as they did a 12 months in the past.
Key 2025 stat: Four offensive linemen with 10-plus begins
Need: OL cohesion
What went unsuitable: On paper, the Huskies’ offensive line projected to be a energy in 2026. Among the names on the depth chart: a seasoned proper sort out in Drew Azzopardi, fellow veterans Geirean Hatchett and Landen Hatchett, a second-year starter in John Mills, an intriguing portal addition in Sam Houston State switch Kolt Dieterich and freshman sort out Kodi Greene, one of many highest-ranked offensive line recruits. With that assortment of expertise, the commencement of left sort out Carver Willis and portal departures of Paki Finau and Zach Henning appeared extra palatable.
Yet few, if any, applications that featured within the preseason AP Top 25 have had a tougher time discovering the correct offensive line mixture this fall than the Huskies. A lingering wrist harm has saved projected beginning heart Landen Hatchett from all however one sport to date, forcing Dieterich into the position. Greene’s rising pains at left sort out have prompted Washington to shift Mills from guard to sort out in a number of video games, and proper guard snaps have been break up between Hatchett and second-year lineman Champ Taulealea.
The level is there was little or no cohesion on the Huskies’ offensive line to date, and the shortage of continuity has proven. In move safety, struggles to guard quarterback Demond Williams Jr. have translated to an FBS-worst 21 sacks conceded. And the Huskies’ One hundred and thirty fifth-ranked speeding assault (90.3 yards per sport) hasn’t been significantly better other than Williams’ legs.
Both points had been on full show in a 41-24 dwelling loss to Iowa final weekend, when Washington gave up six sacks and completed with -3 speeding yards in a low level of a disappointing season.
Tom Luginbill contributed to this story.