The Time Daniel Snyder Picked Malcolm Kelly Over Jamaal Charles

Bog - Hey, it’s never the wrong time for an ESPN reporter to drop some intelligence about the decision-making behind Washington’s 2008 NFL draft. Putting aside the basic weirdness of this coming out in January 2014, I thought you might be interested in this exchange between Kevin Sheehan, Thom Loverro and Adam Schefter on ESPN 980 this week. Loverro asked Schefter about Washington’s new front-office structure and the suggestion that Mike Shanahan and Vinny Cerrato may have disregarded the advice of Morocco Brown and Scott Campbell in the past. This led to a discussion of the second round of that ill-fated 2008 draft. “Vinny wanted to take Jamaal Charles, and he was overruled in favor of Malcolm Kelly,” Schefter said. “Vinny was in charge of the front office; I know that the front office wanted Jamaal Charles, and that was the pick. And there aren’t too many people that can overrule the front office for Malcolm Kelly.” The suggestion being, of course, that ownership was involved.

There will never be a story where Daniel Snyder look like a completely incompetent boob that I won’t blog. The good news is 90% of the stories about him fall in that category, and there’s seemingly a new one every week. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Redskins, but absolutely despise our sorry excuse of an owner. Today’s story is the classic “I want the tall WR with a history of injuries who ran 40 times of 4.75 and 4.68 in the 40 yard dash over the running back that every player personnel guy in the front office recommends drafting.” Good ol’ Snyder. Just overruling the guys he pays to make picks. Right after taking another WR in Devin Thomas and a pass catching TE in Fred Davis. Those were the three picks in the second round of the 2008 draft that every Skins fan went bananas over. Good times.