The Redskins keep gearing up for Sunday’s home game with the Buffalo Bills.  Their hearts are heavy still, knowing that teammate SeanTaylor isn’t coming back.  Clinton Portis says just going to his locker, which was right next to Sean’s, is hard to do.  After this weekend’s game, the team will fly to Miami for a [...]

Former receiver Art Monk of the Redskins is on a list of 26 semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2008.  The board of selectors has picked the candidates from a list of 124 preliminary nominees.  Among others on the list are former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, former Vikings wide out Cris Carter, [...]

With heavy hearts the Washington Redskins returned to practice Wednesday, just one day after the death of safety Sean Taylor.  Taylor’s father, Pedro, addressed the team at the start of practice and made it clear how much love and devotion his son had for his teammates and the Redskins.  The team’s safeties also gathered by [...]

The Washington Redskins on Wednesday signed wide receiver Jimmy Farris and linebacker Matt Sinclair from their practice squad; terms of the contracts were not disclosed.  Farris returns to the Redskins for the second time this season; he was signed on November 15 and released 8 days later, playing in one game. In his 4th season, [...]

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement Tuesday in the wake of the passing of safety Sean Taylor.  Goodell said the entire league is deeply saddened by Taylor’s death, and added that Taylor will be honored at all NFL games this weekend.  Goodell called Taylor’s death, quote, “a terrible tragedy involving the loss of a young [...]

It’s really hard for players of the Washington Redskins to think about football after losing one of their top performers to a shooting in South Florida.  Team owner Daniel Snyder is among those reacting to the death of star safety Sean Taylor.  He’s reflecting on how the 24-year-old safety was the first player that he [...]

  Safety Sean Taylor passed away early Tuesday at the age of 24 after being shot during a robbery in his home early Monday morning. The former first round pick was shot in the leg at his home in South Florida. Taylor was out of the University of Miami and was the Redskins first round [...]