The Washington Commanders sit at No. 2 in the order for the 2024 NFL Draft. But what if the quarterback they want is USC's Caleb Williams, who is projected to go No. 1? For Lynnell Willingham, you do what ESPN NFL analyst Lance Reddic said: Do whatever you have to do to make a trade with the Chicago Bears to land the Heisman Trophy winner.
“So, if you’re sitting there and you’re Washington, and you have Kliff Kingsbury, and Caleb is from the area, and he has a great relationship with Kliff already, and he’s putting on Instagram ‘My dawg,’ don’t overthink some things here,” Reddick said recently. said. “We overthink a lot of things with football; we twist ourselves up a lot of times trying to get to a conclusion that we know ain’t the right conclusion. The right conclusion for Washington is do what you got to do to get this guy on your football team because nobody in your organization, and I mean nobody, knows Caleb like Kliff Kingsbury does… and if he gives his stamp of approval, then you move heaven and earth to try and get in position to draft him because you ain’t going nowhere with the people you got — nowhere. Make it happen.”
Of course, there might just be no idea in the world Chris Russell might hate more. And so when Russell and Willingham got into the studio on Wednesday, well, there were fireworks from the word go.
(And the word go was the word Tupperware, which in this case Willingham was wrong about and Russell was right to point out is a brand-name like Kleenex, Band-Aid or Q-tip.)
Listen on the audio player above as they debate how good Williams is as a quarterback and any potential issues they would have with the quarterback.
On the audio player below, Willingham and Russell are still going at it over the cost of trading up and more Washington fans chime in with their takes. Listen:
