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Redskins wide receiver Josh Doctson appears to be headed to doing something he hasn’t done since last September—taking snaps in a game. It’s a question of when, not if. The 2016 first-round pick left practice early on August 6 with a hamstring injury. While the injury wasn’t as serious as it was first feared, it still has kept him out of the Redskins’ preseason opener against the Ravens and out of practice until yesterday. Doctson has not appeared in a game for the Redskins since last September, when he played a total of 31 snaps in the team’s first two games before being shut down due to a lingering Achilles injury. As the team took the field at Redskins Park, Doctson came out in shoulder pads

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Let’s face it. Yet again, we’ve been had by Dan Duquette. Granted, there is no certainty in a 16-game sample, but Tim Beckham has gone above and beyond any expectations you might have had. At the time of the trade, I wrote that the acquisition of Beckham, which came at no immediate cost, was yet to be determined. Even so, the upside that Beckham had shown made the deal an easy one to agree upon. Yesterday, Fangraphs’ Dave Cameron took the time to scribe that the Orioles, yes the Orioles, may have made the premier trade of the deadline. So far, it’s hard to argue otherwise. Not counting yesterday’s two-hit performance (including a walk and a home run), Beckham has slashed .484/.500/.855 as an