Washington is an ascending back with a rare blend of size, burst, and speed, and he\u2019s coming off a breakout season at Arkansas. He posted the fastest 40 and 10-yard split times among running backs at the combine, and while he doesn\u2019t always look like he has 4.3-second 40 speed on tape, he averaged 6.4 yards per carry in 2025 and is a threat to go whenever he gets a seam. He\u2019s a patient runner who hugs blocks and makes late cuts, and he has an outstanding start-stop ability, especially for a back of his size. He freezes defenders with hesitation moves and accelerates once they are caught flat-footed. He quickly reaches the edge on outside zone runs.<\/p>\n
He runs with a narrow base but can break tackles with good contact balance. He\u2019s strong enough to lower his shoulder, run over defenders in space, and push the pile when he doesn\u2019t get a seam. He is a high-cut runner with some tightness in his hips, and he tries to make too much happen on occasion. He\u2019s fumbled seven times in the past two seasons, though he\u2019s lost only two of them, according to PFF.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult to find a good comparison for Washington\u2019s size and speed. His game has shades of Kenneth Walker III; they are both powerful runners with great speed, and there were also concerns about Walker\u2019s pass blocking coming out of college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington is an ascending back with a rare blend of size, burst, and speed, and he\u2019s coming off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,4397,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-853550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-draft","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116347455823834302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}