It’s hard to believe that Albert Haynesworth’s Redskins tenure will wind up including just two seasons, and just 32 games. Well, 20 games, technically, since he missed four his first season and eight his next.
And yet, for only suiting up 20 times, Haynesworth sure leaves behind a lot of memorable highlights. In the “horrible aching pain in the gall bladder” sense of memorable. Before we say good-bye one final time, let’s take a quick look back.
Getting carted off the field. It would have been hard to imagine at the time that the team’s star free-agent acquisition needing motorized transport to get to the sidelines in his first month as a Redskin during an agonizing loss to the then-putrid Detroit Lions would only rank tenth on this list, but Albert has a tendency to over-achieve in these things. Still, veteran NFL watchers struggled to think of many times that prominent players took a ride to the sidelines due to cramps and then returned to the game. Not a great look.
The preseason rant. The 2010 preseason wasn’t Albert Haynesworth’s finest month — and more on that later, obviously — but an oft-forgotten lowlight came after a scrimmage against the Ravens.
Rhabdomyolysis. In a related story, that preseason rant led directly to several days of rhabdomyolysis talk. Mike Shanahan had said that Haynesworth was suffering from “more of a headache than anything else,” while anonymous sources cropped up saying it was actually rhabdo, which led to a scramble for medical experts to break this thing down. It all felt a tad ridiculous, which is one of the better words for the Haynesworth Era.
And yet, for only suiting up 20 times, Haynesworth sure leaves behind a lot of memorable highlights. In the “horrible aching pain in the gall bladder” sense of memorable. Before we say good-bye one final time, let’s take a quick look back.
Getting carted off the field. It would have been hard to imagine at the time that the team’s star free-agent acquisition needing motorized transport to get to the sidelines in his first month as a Redskin during an agonizing loss to the then-putrid Detroit Lions would only rank tenth on this list, but Albert has a tendency to over-achieve in these things. Still, veteran NFL watchers struggled to think of many times that prominent players took a ride to the sidelines due to cramps and then returned to the game. Not a great look.
The preseason rant. The 2010 preseason wasn’t Albert Haynesworth’s finest month — and more on that later, obviously — but an oft-forgotten lowlight came after a scrimmage against the Ravens.
“It was all right,” he said of his stint. “Third quarter, though? I’m a ninth-year pro. I don’t think I should’ve been out there in the third quarter. But for having ‘headaches’ again, that’s what they wanted to do.”This was also the day Haynesworth pledged not to come to offseason workouts in 2011, and the day he told Mike Wise he threw up coming out of a hot tub.
Rhabdomyolysis. In a related story, that preseason rant led directly to several days of rhabdomyolysis talk. Mike Shanahan had said that Haynesworth was suffering from “more of a headache than anything else,” while anonymous sources cropped up saying it was actually rhabdo, which led to a scramble for medical experts to break this thing down. It all felt a tad ridiculous, which is one of the better words for the Haynesworth Era.
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