{"id":104723,"date":"2021-03-08T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=104723"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:29:10","slug":"brandon-scherff-signs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/03\/08\/brandon-scherff-signs-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Scherff Receives Franchise Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-Pro guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/ScheBr00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Scherff<\/a> has received the franchise tag from the Washington Football Team. This move brings one of the top names off the free agent market.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources tell me the Washington Football Team will use the franchise tag on RG Brandon Scherff.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPFinlayNBCS\/status\/1369100437257924611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Washington Football Team Places Franchise Tag on Brandon Scherff<\/h2>\n<p>From a production standpoint, Scherff is the total package. He is one of the best offensive linemen in the NFL today. Scherff was named to four Pro Bowls in his first six seasons. Teammates love the insight he shares in locker room banter, team meetings and on the field. In their eyes, Scherff is a true team leader.<\/p>\n<p>He is a dominant run blocker and very effective at protecting the quarterback in the pocket from interior pass rushers. Scherff\u2019s lower body strength allows him to move defenders off the line of scrimmage. Plus, he has an uncanny knack of aligning secondary blocks off his original assignment, which gives the offensive a unique advantage in numbers on outside-designed running plays.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of the accolades, Scherff has struggled to stay healthy the past three seasons. He has missed a combined 16 games due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/washington\/football-team\/whats-next-after-brandon-scherff-lands-ir-3rd-straight-season\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a variety of injuries<\/a>: a torn pectoral muscle forced Scherff to miss eight games in 2018, lingering elbow and shoulder injuries kept him out of the lineup for five games in 2019 and he missed three games because of a knee sprain this past season. And throughout all of the physical setbacks, Scherff was able to make a significant contribution in games\u00a0when he was healthy enough to start on Sundays. Scherff was flagged for\u00a0only two penalties in 2020<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/washington-football-team\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Football Team<\/a> drafted Scherff with the fifth overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft. Immediately, team head coach Joe Gibbs inserted him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/dc-sports-bog\/wp\/2015\/05\/05\/fans-dream-of-a-hogs-return-after-redskins-draft-brandon-scherff\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as the starting right tackle<\/a> in the lineup. But Scherff began to open some eyes with his lateral movement to get outside and become the lead blocker on screen passes. It did not take long for them to move Scherff inside to the right guard position and he has never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"XhyNP8c7QTpOobSFprnduA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1293525709\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'XhyNP8c7QTpOobSFprnduA',sig:'MNgzCtJMi-M5BDLgQ3Y1ykSm0V8qqxxwAT83B0K7zsA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1293525709',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest names has come off the free agent market after offensive lineman Brandon Scherff found a new home on the open market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2802,"featured_media":104904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Brandon Scherff free agent stub","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8896],"tags":[3731,1608,246,7385],"class_list":["post-104723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-football-team","category-washington-commanders","tag-brandon-scherff","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-nfl-news","tag-washington-football-team-roster"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}