Bruce Allen identified getting a contract extension done for Pro Bowl guard Brandon Scherff as one of the Redskins' biggest priorities of the 2019 offseason. To this point, however, nothing has happened.
They are talking, though.
“We’ve been talking, but I’m not really worried about that,” Scherff said, via JP Finlay of NBCSportsWashington.com. “I’m here for another year, so that’s all I’m worried about right now. Everything will take care of itself.”
Scherff, the fifth overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, has played at an elite level since his rookie season. He's made two Pro Bowl teams in four years, and until last year, had been remarkably durable. In 2018, in a Week 8 loss, Scherff went down with a torn pectoral muscle. His season was over.
At OTAs, however, Scherff was a full participant with no brace or apparent encumbrances from the injury.
The team exercised Scherff’s fifth-year option for $12.525 million for this season, but that’s still less than top guards Zack Martin and Andrew Norwell make per year on long-term deals.
Martin has an annual average salary of $14 million and Norwell makes $13.3 million per season.
If Scherff hits the open market, expect his market to be quite bullish. Once a lesser-paid position than tackle, guards have recently started pulling in significant cash as the importance of defending inside pass rushers has become more and more vital to offenses.
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