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NFL2021
WASHINGTON
FT
COACH
Ron Rivera (2nd season with team,7-9)
LAST SEASON
7-9 (1st in NFC East; lost in wild card round)
Record since 2011: 63-96-1 (0-3 in playoffs)
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2020 TEAM STATISTICAL LEAGUE RANKINGS
2020 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICAL LEADERS
SCORING OFFENSE
25th of 32 (20.9 ppg)
RUSHING
Antonio Gibson: 170 carries, 795 yards, 11 TDs, 56.8 ypg
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SCORING DEFENSE
4th of 32 (20.6 ppg)
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RUSHING OFFENSE
26th of 32 (100.7 ypg)
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PASSING OFFENSE
25th of 32 (216.6 ypg)
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PASSING
Alex Smith: 168-252, 1,582 yards, 6 TDs, 8 ints, 198.1 ypg
SCORING
Dustin Hopkins, PK: 111 points (27 FGs, 30 PAT, 6.9 ppg)
Stats from pro-football-reference.com
DoorDash to the NFL
How 2 Washington players made ends meet
By Stephen Whyno
Associated Press
S
ammis Reyes got in his car, put on
podcasts and tried to learn something
while he was driving. Sam Cosmi
borrowed his sister’s car to make the most
out of the mileage.
The destination was a stranger’s front
step.
Long before they became Washington
Football teammates, Reyes and Cosmi each
drove for a food delivery service during the
pandemic. Taking a job like that certainly
was not unique to athletes, though it shows
how far they were willing to go to make ends
meet before getting to the NFL and the ensuing payday.
“In this life, you’ve got to do what you’ve
got to do to get the end goal,” Reyes said
Wednesday. “That was the only job that gave
me the flexibility for me to still train. I had to
figure out a way to make money, to be able
to work out a couple times a day, so that’s
what it was.”
Cosmi, like Reyes, found a way to drive
for DoorDash and also delivered groceries
for Instacart in between meetings and film
study at Texas. The 6-foot-6, 309-pound
offensive tackle’s size stood out to grocery
delivery customers who greeted him, often
asking why he was doing it if he had sights
set on a football career.
“Something to do,” Cosmi told them. “I
couldn’t really stay in the house. I did all my
workouts and studies and meetings and the
rest of the day I fit in just working and doing
something. I just couldn’t sit in the house
and not doing anything. It’s just not me. It
was just a little way to get a little extra dough
in the pocket.”
Reyes, who’s from Chile and moved to the
U.S. as a teenager to play basketball, did it
because his hoops training gig disappeared
with COVID-19 preventing folks from working with him in person. Far removed from a
brief college basketball stint at Tulane, he
drove around Northern Virginia attempting
to pay his bills and make some good impressions along the way.
“When you’re providing a service, people
will take care of you,” Reyes said. “Getting
those good tips at times, that was great. I
would make sure I would send a text to all
of my clients and all of the customers and
just trying to be nice and kind to people and
that paid off.”
Reyes tries to maximize his time by multitasking; hence the business, football and
other podcasts serving as his soundtrack
behind the wheel.
With his sister’s Camry getting him from
place to place, Cosmi went through some
adventures.
“The app crashed one time while I had
three peoples’ food and I didn’t know what
to do, so I was in the store for about three
hours just waiting for it to come back on,”
he said. “There were some good times and
bad times.”
Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera reacts during the second half of a preseason
game against the Patriots on Aug. 12 in Foxborough, Mass. STEW MILNE/AP
2021 SCHEDULE WEEK 9 BYE
WEEK 1
Sept. 12
WEEK 2
Sept. 16
WEEK 3
Sept. 26
WEEK 4
Oct. 3
WEEK 5
Oct. 10
WEEK 6
Oct. 17
WEEK 7
Oct. 24
WEEK 8
Oct. 31
WEEK 10
Nov. 14
WEEK 11
Nov. 21
WEEK 12
Nov. 29
WEEK 13
Dec. 5
WEEK 14
Dec. 12
WEEK 15
Dec. 19
WEEK 16
Dec. 26
WEEK 17
Jan. 2
WEEK 18
Jan. 9
LAC
1 p.m.
FOX
NYG
8:20 p.m.
NFL
@BUF
1 p.m.
FOX
@ATL
1 p.m.
FOX
NO
1 p.m.
CBS
KC
1 p.m.
CBS
@GB
1 p.m.
FOX
@DEN
4:25 p.m.
FOX
TB
1 p.m.
FOX
@CAR
1 p.m.
FOX
SEA
8:15 p.m.
ESPN
@LVR
4:05 p.m.
FOX
DAL
1 p.m.
FOX
@PHI
TBD
TBD
@DAL
8:20 p.m.
NBC
PHI
1 p.m.
FOX
@NYG
1 p.m.
FOX
Note: This section was printed before final roster cuts, so personnel are subject to change; all times are Eastern and subject to change