Written by Master Tesfatsion at Washington Post.com
Su’a Cravens will not play a down in 2017. The Washington Redskins announced Monday that Cravens, the team’s projected starting safety entering this season, would be shut down for the remainder of the year.
The 22-year-old’s placement on the NFL’s reserve/left squad list requires he not suit up again for the Redskins this season and also calls into doubt his future with the team.
Cravens’s status with Washington, and the sport as a whole, came into question three weeks earlier, just before the start of the 2017 season when he told teammates and team personnel he was considering retiring.
Redskins President Bruce Allen convinced Cravens to take more time to evaluate his situation and the team placed him on the exempt/left squad list, a designation that gave him 30 days before a permanent decision on his roster status needed to be made. Now, Cravens’s status for 2017 has been resolved after Week 2 of the fledgling NFL season. His future with the organization, and the sport, remains an open question.
“We sincerely hope that Su’a uses this time away from the club to reflect upon whether or not he’d like to resume his career in the National Football League in 2018,” the Redskins said in a statement.
An NFL Network report Sunday said Cravens was expected to report back to the team this week. On Saturday, he was spotted standing next to Redskins Senior Vice President of Player Personnel Doug Williams on the sidelines of the Texas-USC game at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the same venue in which the Redskins played the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. But Redskins Coach Jay Gruden said on a Monday conference call with reporters that he had not talked to Cravens since he left the team.
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