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Washington will definitely be activating Adrian Peterson this week. There’s no choice Wes Martin Jersey , with Derrius Guice injured.But coach Jay Gruden admitted it was tough to not give the veteran running back a uniform last week against the Eagles, deactivating a guy with 13,318 career rushing yards so he could fully fund his special teams units.“It’s not easy,” Gruden said of the call, via J.P. Finlay of NBCSportsWashington.com. “Adrian was on a couple of teams before we got him. It’s hard sometimes to dress two backs on first down, two first down backs. You have to have guys who different things. You have to have a third-down back. Sometimes it’s Chris Thompson, somebody else got to play third down. Somebody has to help on special teams. It’s hard to get everybody up on a 46-man roster. We just chose to dress [Wendell] Smallwood for a special teams sake and only dress three running backs, which is something we’ve done since I’ve been here pretty much.“So it was a tough decision, something you never want to do Womens Bryce Love Jersey , especially with Adrian Peterson. It’s one game. We could dress them all next week and the week after that. So we’ll just address it next week. But this week, with Darren Sproles back there on punts and on the road, we thought it was important to really have the coverage unit in place.”It’s easy for Gruden now, since Guice is expected to miss time with a knee injury suffered in the opener, and the coach is fine with that.“I’m very comfortable,” he said. “[Guice and Peterson] are 1 and 1a to me. They’re the same position. If something happens and Derrius can’t go, we’re happy to play AP and not even bat an eye. Hopefully Derrius will be fine, and eventually, there could be a situation we dress both of them and Chris Thompson. It’s just a matter of where we are special teams wise that given week.”Of course https://www.theredskinslockerroom.com/au...rin-jersey , kicking game concerns are important. But not being able to run effectively with a 17-point lead (which they blew) might also have been important, and having Peterson in uniform might have helped with that. Shocker"Least shocking news of the day award goes to JP Finlay's report that the Redskins will not be picking up WR Josh Doctson's 5th year option on his rookie contract. The option would have cost the Redskins $10.162 million next year, and would have been fully guaranteed for injury. and hasn't shown the Redskins enough on the field for them to commit to him next year. His injury history makes him a risk to invest that much money in past his rookie deal. Everyone has been waiting for Doctson to prove his draft status, and he will have to step up this year if he wants to get paid in 2020.Doctson's first year was lost to mysterious Achilles injuries. He started 26 games over the last two seasons. Doctson is averaging 40 receptions a year for 517 yards and 4 TDs. He hasn't become the WR the Redskins projected when they drafted him at #22 in 2016.The Redskins just drafted a franchise QB in Dwayne Haskins, and gave him two new receivers in Terry McLaurin and Kelvin Harmon. They also lost Jamison Crowder to the Jets in free agency. Doctson still has a place on the roster this year, but beyond that is much less likely.