"We did a lot, a lot of research on him, as we do with everybody," McCloughan told Redskins.com TV’s Larry Michael. "But he’s got a couple things still pending out there so we had to really look into it, and we did. … We all got together and asked, ‘Honest opinion, what do you guys think?’ and we all had a thumbs up."
"He’s had 22 sacks the last two years, and I watched five games yesterday from last year and he could’ve easily had eight more sacks," McCloughan said. "The guy gets to the quarterback.