Demetric Evans knows Snyderrato

As you know by now, DL Demetric Evans wasn’t wanted by the Redskins, they didn’t even offer him a contract. Today he signed a very reasonable contract with the San Francisco 49ers and the Redskins are left looking to replace a player who wasn’t much better than average, but was still the best defensive end on the team last year. [The best bargain, too.] 

“I knew when we played in San Francisco (the final game of the 2008 regular season) that that was going to be my last game for the Redskins,” Evans said. “You see how they operate in free agency, and I’m not the kind of guy they value. Guys like me, Ryan Clark, Antonio Pierce, guys who start at the bottom and work their way up, they don’t keep those guys around. So, I never, never thought I would be coming back to Washington.

“I’m not that sexy defensive end. I’m not bringing that Jason Taylor appeal. But I still made the sacks and tackles. At the end of the day, though, everything happens for a reason and I’m excited for the opportunity to go to San Francisco and compete for a starting job and show them what I can do.”

Evans said he asked his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, why the Skins didn’t want him but said he never got a firm answer. He said Rosenhaus just told him early in the process that they would have to find other teams. Evans was credited with 3 ½ sacks last season — same as Taylor — though Evans should have had four. Carter led the team with just 4 despite more playing time. Evans was a key man in the nickel package, rushing from a tackle spot, and could drop back in coverage as well.

Had the Redskins made a modest offer of any sort during Evans’s final year here, something like $1.5 million to sign, low base salaries, he likely would have taken it. Now the team is sorting through older ends believing that basically anyone can play end here now that Albert Haynesworth has arrived.