Ben Johnson's upcoming interview schedule

There's quite a bit of Monday Morning Quarterbacking happening with this story. Notice how this gets leaked after the Commanders win a playoff game and clearly struck gold with JD.

Remember 12 months ago, JD was a late riser up draft boards and while this fanbase with close proximity to LSU was largely enamored with him, the feelings among many was that JD at 2 would be a reach.

Howell wasn't trash. He has potential as a player with ups and downs and it's not shocking a guy like Johnson wanted to try to develop him and draft a different position of need than QB. But it's also not shocking that the front office and HC having such a different vision for the team at a critical juncture would derail a job, too.