James Washington approaches Pittsburgh Steelers about requesting trade, source says
Pittsburgh Steelers vast receiver James Washington has approached the workforce about requesting a trade, a source informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday.
The source mentioned that Washington, who is entering the ultimate year of his rookie deal, is sad with his limited taking part in time very last period and so considerably this preseason.
Washington, 25, noticed his output dwindle very last period. He played just 486 snaps (forty four%) in 2020 immediately after seeing action on 634 snaps (64%) in 2019. His on-area output took a corresponding hit, with him recording just 392 yards and 5 TDs very last period as as opposed with 735 yards and three scores in 2019.
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He was qualified 2 times in Thursday’s Hall of Fame Match from the Dallas Cowboys.
Final period, Ben Roethlisberger even campaigned to get Washington on the area extra generally as his snap counts lowered in the next half of the period.
“James Washington is a person that is having on the area and desires to get on the area extra,” Roethlisberger mentioned in December. “But it truly is not due to the fact anybody’s not undertaking fantastic. It’s just due to the fact he’s a player that can make performs. We normally talk about men being clean. We will need to rotate men, get him on the area, due to the fact he’s hungry, needs to be out there and make performs for us.”
The Oklahoma Point out alum was picked in the next spherical of the 2018 draft and is a section of a loaded receivers space that also contains JuJu Smith-Schuster, Chase Claypool and Diontae Johnson.
He has generally been an underrated deep-menace choice in the Steelers’ offense and figured to have a more substantial function in coordinator Matt Canada’s offense with Canada’s regular rotation of receivers.
