Offensive Player Of The Year: Terry McLaurin

Terry McLaurin is a stud. He’s just stuck on a bad offense and that’s a shame.

- Chris Russell

The rookie receiver is wrapping up his first season in the NFL and even though there’s an overall lack of production on offense, McLaurin is by far the brightest star.

Because of that, he is our 2019 Warpath Offensive Player of the Year.

McLaurin was drafted in the third-round out of Ohio State to primarily be a developmental receiver with speed and a special teams’ ace. He was widely regarded as the best player in the draft on specials.

In his first 12 NFL games, or 75 percent of a season, McLaurin played exactly three special-teams snaps. Three.

That’s good and bad. It’s really good because he’s been a very productive receiver and weapon on a supremely challenged unit.

The bad is because the Redskins had nobody besides McLaurin that could stay healthy and even come close to challenging him.

Jordan Reed was lost for the year before it even began. Derrius Guice went on injured reserve twice in the same season. Adrian Peterson, banished to the bench at first by former coach Jay Gruden, couldn’t duplicate his success from last year when he won this award.

Any other receivers? Please! No one even close. Quarterbacks? Three played and they all struggled, miserably at times.

The coaching was bad, the game plans were limited and the results were inconsistent. But if there was one individual that shined consistently, it was McLaurin.