It is Thursday afternoon, and some bad news. Another injury for the Redskins, their third big injury in the first five days. But at least this player won’t be out for the season.
Rookie wide receiver Devin Thomas suffered a hamstring injury, and could miss a couple of weeks. He hurt himself running a pass play during practice.
You know when Coach Jim Zorn and his staff saw that it brought back nightmares of Sunday’s first practice when starting defensive end Phillip Daniels was hurt and lost for the season.
Of course this was nothing as serious as that, but you don’t want to lose a rookie who might start for you this early in training camp.
I hope this guy has a lot of natural talent.
Also, it’s a good thing the Redskins are playing the Colts in the Hall of Fame game, because the NFL gave them an extra week of practice.
It was not nearly as hot at practice today, the players seemed to really be happy about that.
There was a good crowd of fans there to watch the action. If you are a diehard Redskins fan, you might want to drive up to Redskins Park on Saturday for fan appreciation day. It’s a good chance to see the team up close, and the players do stop and sign a lot of autographs.
Saturday, they’ll have the cheerleaders and band out there and they will really make a big deal of it all.
They say if you go to wavy.com and click on sports you can get all the info you need.
I am going to take a break, tonight on WAVY News 10 at 5, I’ll visit with backup quarterback Todd Collins, at 6 I’ll visit with cornerback Fred Smoot. You can see both of those stories at 10:45 tonight on the FOX 43 Sportswrap.
And tomorrow I’ll visit with Redskins running back Clinton Portis.
I hope you have enjoyed these training camp blogs.
More to come next week.
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