ASHBURN, Va. — There were, as could best be determined, no buzzards flying above the Park Monday morning. It only felt that desultory, that suddenly hopeless.
This team’s inability to keep its best football players upright the last several years took a whole new turn three plays into the first day of OTAs. That it was Reuben Foster who went down in a heap after stepping on Tyler Catalina’s foot on the third play of the first workout brought a certain horrible symmetry to the whole awful morning. The momentum of a nationally perceived strong draft, the positively received offseason moves (except for those willing to die on the hill of the supposed limitations of what a “box safety” can do), all dashed in an instant.
Just that quickly, Washington’s hopes that Foster, its months-long reclamation project, could ably take over an inside linebacker spot for Zach Brown and provide Brown’s side-to-side pursuit of the football, was gone for the…
