The defensive line, for what it counts against the salary cap, gave Washington the best bang for its bucks in 2018. All three starters — Jonathan Allen, Daron Payne and Matt Ioannidis — are 25 or younger and trended up last season. Going into this offseason, the trio is finding healthy competition. Backups Tim Settle, and Caleb Brantley have the coaching staff excited. Will one of the other prospects the team signed do enough to convince coach Jay Gruden to keep a sixth lineman?
We’ve been going in-depth at The Athletic the past few days to examine each position and each player in that position group going into training camp and discussing potential areas of strength, weakness, improvement and more. Today, we look at the defensive line.
Depth chart (10)
Jonathan Allen; Ryan Bee (R); Jonathan Bonner (R); Caleb Brantley; Matt Ioannidis; Austin Maloata (R); Daron Payne; Tim Settle; Marcus Smith; JoJo Wicker
Newcomers
Ryan Bee (undrafted…
