Redskins, LB Kerrigan Agree to Multi-Year Contract Extension

Kerrigan’s deal now makes him the NFL’s third-high paid linebacker, behind Kansas City’s Justin Houston and Clay Matthews of Green Bay.

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“To get to a moment like this where you get a chance to play out the rest of your NFL career with the team that drafted you, the team that you love, the city that you love, it hasn’t really hit me yet, but it’s an awesome feeling”, Kerrigan said in a release. “For them to give me this kind of vote of confidence to hopefully finish my career out as a Redskin means the world to me”. Whether Kerrigan will be among the players practicing fully, however, remains to be seen. Gruden admitted his players may not have been ready for that in the past, but believes they should be now. “He’s a guy that can stop the run, obviously; very good at the point of attack”. But the Redskins’ defense did little otherwise to rattle opposing quarterbacks en route to a 4-12 finish, worst in the NFC East. “He’s going to handle the adversity”, Gruden said. For that to happen, the coach conceded, the Redskins must perform better on both sides of the ball. “He can do it all”. Which position battles are the most competitive? Long before the NFL limited contact in practice and training camps, Shanahan was giving his starters days off and sparing them the work-week mileage. Orakpo signed with the Tennessee Titans. The Redskins will have a very formidable collection of outside linebackers when you combine Kerrigan with second-year OLB Trent Murphy and rookie Preston Smith. And McCloughan retooled the defensive line, adding veteran free agents with girth and power. Though Kerrigan underwent a knee scope this offseason, he isn’t expected to miss any game time. Kerrigan is scheduled to earn $7.03 million this season in the fifth-year option the Redskins picked up.

“We want to win, and I know that’s a simple thing to say, but it is”, Kerrigan said. And now it’s just a matter of going out here and continuing to coach our offense and watching him get better.