Jay Gruden is gone, but who will replace him in Washington?

2. Ryan Day

If it comes down to head coaching candidates who are presumed willing to keep and work with Dwayne Haskins as criteria to be hired by the Redskins, we land on Day. He is in his first full season as head coach at Ohio State, as he stepped in permanently for Urban Meyer of course, and he was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Columbus for two seasons prior to that.

Day is a Chip Kelly protegé, with two seasons as an NFL quarterbacks coach (2015 with the Philadelphia Eagles, 2016 with the San Francisco) under his mentor. He may have no desire to make the jump to an NFL coaching job of any kind, let alone leave Ohio State after just one season as the full-time head coach. It still can’t hurt the Redskins to do a little due diligence to gauge Day’s interest based on his previous work with, and assumed affinity for?, Haskins.

Leaving a premium college head coaching job for an NFL head coaching job is a slippery, mostly ego-driven slope, with plenty of corpses (symbolically of course) along that roadside. But with the idea of leaving no viable stone unturned, and/or until they get a polite decline from Day or his agent, he should be on the list of head coaching candidates for the Redskins.