Overrated/Underrated Redskins

[RedskinRat]

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[SirLK26]

Most underrated: I'm going to say Will Montgomery. He did a heckuva job last year without getting noticed too much, although he did have a few bad snaps.

Most overrated: I'm going to say Orakpo, simply because most say he's pretty good, but he hasn't really played enough to show it. So I'll take a page out of CB59's book and adopt a prove-me-wrong mentality.

[Monkeydad]

Current Underrated - Chris Chester & Josh Wilson

Current Overrated - Leonard Hankerson

All-time Underrated - Ricky Sanders

All-time Overrated - Lavar Arrington

[over the mountain]

underrated - lichensteiger, montgomery bc both had very low profiles and expectations coming in and i think both have been very servicable to the zbs.

i leave chester out bc i think when he came over from the ravens he has lived up to but not exceeded expectation of being a decent to good guard. plus he gets a decent salary. i think he is rated just right.

overrated - i take hall off the list since he has a new and fair market value contract. i actually think if hall takes this offseason's disinterest in any team wanting to sign him as a sign he needs to re-eval his approach, i think he can quickly become a shutdown cb. im amazed at how this offseason has played out w regards to hall.

[Monkeydad]

I chose Chester because no one really remembers him but he's been our most reliable o-lineman since he came here. I believe it was the 2011 season, he was only starter to go all 16 games if I remember right, and he did a good job.

Montgomery was a great choice. A Center who doesn't draw attention is one who is doing a great job. Remember Rabach's constant TD and drive-killing penalties? He also couldn't snap in shotgun formation...gave Campbell an even tougher job. Since Montgomery took over...no issues.

[Mechanix544]

Other than silverback, chester is our best lineman, bar none.

[Bucket]

Underrated - Our whole offensive line. Mostly Montgomery.

Overrated - Roster/Helu

All Time.

Underrated - Ken Harvey

Overrated - Doug Williams

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Bucket

Underrated - Our whole offensive line. Mostly Montgomery.

Overrated - Roster/Helu

All Time.

Underrated - Ken Harvey

Overrated - Doug Williams

The whole roster? Damn, we're screwed!

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

The whole roster? Damn, we're screwed!

I think he meant Oysters in general. They just don't taste that good.

[budw38]

Underrated , Fletcher , Kory L. , D. Young . Underrated all time , Monte Coleman , C. Gouveia , Bostic ,R. Mckenzie and D. Warren .

[GTripp0012]

Darrel Young is a pretty important contributor, for a fullback.

Is this like, a question of contract overvalued, fan overvalued, or overvalued by coaches/announcers? Because you'd get a lot of different answers.

The player who is most overvalued from a contract perspective is London Fletcher, but the team is very clear that the main reason he's getting paid a disproportionate amount of the salary cap is because you can't ask the emotional leader to take a pay cut. You either uphold your end of the contract to him, or you release him. Fletcher is not overrated on the field though because I think people (coaches and fans) realize that he's aging and that you have to take the bad with the good. And his good is still very, very good.

So I'll go with Stephen Bowen as most overrated, not because he's a bad player, but because the Redskins signed him as a $4.5 mil/year interior lineman and the return has been mixed. Quality starters are quality starters, and I don't want to make it seem like the Redskins would be better without him. They wouldn't. He's an important piece of the defense. But he's a bit out of position as a two-gapping end, and tends to be much better as a defensive tackle in our forty fronts. There's some monetary value to positional versatility, but he usually gets engulfed by bigger tackles when he plays on the edge.

That's not his fault, he's just doing what he's being paid and coached to do, but it does make him a bit overrated in my assessment.

As far as being underrated, the first name that popped to my mind is Leonard Hankerson, because I don't think people realize how difficult it is to come into the NFL ready to beat coverages and Hankerson is pretty natural as a route runner. He did have a big drop in a playoff game, but I don't think a dropped pass is necessarily any worse than any other kind of incompletion. He's a lot better than people believe.

But after thinking a bit longer, the answer is easy: Brian Orakpo is the most underrated Redskin, and it's not close. He's basically had similar production to Clay Matthews through his first three seasons, and there's no reason that his career wouldn't be as good as Matthews going forward. He does have something to prove this year, which is why the Redskins are waiting around on the contract extension, but I think he's going to be a lot more expensive to sign because we're waiting than he would be if they just extended him now.

[CultBrennan59]

Washington Redskins: All-time underrated, overrated players - NFL.com

[Big C]

current overrated: orakpo and kerrigan both

current underrated: bowen

all-time "the warpath" overrated: nehemiah broughton and anthony mix