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Washington’s top minds have an important decision to make regarding Davis this offseason. He will again be a free agent, but how much is he worth? The Redskins have to decide whether they feel confident enough in Davis’s recovery to open up the checkbook, or whether they want to avoid the injury-related risks and head in another direction.
Reported by the Washington Post
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
After Davis put up career numbers in a 12-game, suspension-shortened 2011 season, the second-round pick’s contract expired last year. Rather than allowing him to hit the free agent market, the Redskins used the franchise tag on him and paid him just less than $5.5 million for the 2012 season. According to Post staff writer Mike Jones, Davis entered last season with three goals: proving that he had matured and learned his lesson from the drug suspension; helping his team reverse its losing ways; and earning a big payday in the offseason that would follow. Davis got off to a bit of a slow start before having a season’s-best outing against Cincinnati with seven catches for 90 yards. But four games later, his season came to an end when he ruptured his left Achilles’ tendon. The Redskins received decent production from Logan Paulsen with Davis out, but Paulsen doesn’t boast the same type of speed and explosiveness. Jones went on to suggest that if Davis is able to return to the form he displayed in 2011, when he put up Pro Bowl numbers, he is extremely valuable. But given his injury and the uncertainty surrounding it, he might find it difficult to demand top dollar. Factoring into the equation would be the other talented tight ends on the market, including Tennessee’s Jared Cook, Dustin Keller of the New York Jets and Martellus Bennett of the Giants.
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