Bengals rookie wide receiver Anthony "Scotty," Washington, named after his father and nicknamed by his older sister, is trying to make a name in the NFL under the most trying of happenstances. Namely, as a college free agent in the middle of a pandemic.
Since May, an undrafted rookie has been robbed of his greatest allies. First, it was the loss of off-season workouts. Now it is the swirling media reports that there are not only going to be no pre-season games, but 80-man training camp rosters instead of 90.
"You start off a step behind being undrafted, but it's just about mindset," Washington said Wednesday, waiting out the results of his corona test at the team's training camp hotel in between virtual meetings. "You can't make any mistakes. You have to be on top of everything."
Washington is focusing on mindset with a not-so light summer reading list anchored by Navy Seal David Goggins' book, Can't Hurt Me as well as audio books by other Seals emphasizing resourcefulness and resilience. More things going for him despite the long odds: brains, ceiling, and familiarity with the Bengals considering he appears to be the receiver on the field that has caught the most passes from new franchise quarterback Joe Burrow heading into whenever that first practice is.
"When you can't evaluate during OTAs or pre-season games, you have to go with what you've got," said Andrew Johnson, the Bengals East Coast scout who charted Washington for much of his career at Wake Forest. "You have to go on traits and upside."
The 6-5, 217-pound Washington has plenty of both even though injuries allowed him to play more than eight games only once in his four seasons.
After two years of watching 6-5, 228-pound Auden Tate snare passes, Bengals fans know that's an NFL body. Washington isn't a clone (who has hands like Tate?) since he may be slightly faster and smaller than Tate. Washington's 40-yard dash time is projected in the low 4.5s, he can catch the long one and before he broke his leg in the eighth game last year ("a non-displaced fracture of the fibula," he called it) he was averaging 17.3 yards per his 35 catches. That puts his career average at 15.2 for 110 catches.
Johnson was first drawn to Washington off his MVP-type performance in the Belk Bowl at the end of his sophomore season: nine caches, 138 yards and a 50-yard touchdown catch in a 55-52 victory over Texas A&M.
This is an intriguing guy. Washington became the first Wake Forest player in 50 years to have a catch and an interception in the same game when the defensive coaches put him into a win over North Carolina State that he preserved when he intercepted future Bengals teammate Ryan Finley's Hail Mary pass. He preserved another victory when he blocked a last-second Appalachian State field goal.
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