Totally worth the weight

Can’t wait to see how the Redskins defend Dwayne Carswell, Denver’s 305-pound pass-catching machine.

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One possibility for Gregg Williams: Having Joe Salave’a, the similarly shaped Samoan, cover him.

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Carswell, a tight end-turned-offensive lineman, scored two — count ‘em, two — touchdowns against Jacksonville last week. Which raises the question: Is there really anything wrong with the Redskins’ red-zone offense that a couple of fades to Ray Brown wouldn’t fix?

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The league doesn’t keep track of these things, unfortunately, but Carswell is probably the first 300-pound guy in NFL history to score twice in a game. Plenty of 300-pounders, of course, have scored twice after a game.

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These are strange football times we live in, you have to admit. After all, nobody has more touchdown grabs in the last two Super Bowls than Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel (two).

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FYI: The heaviest Redskin to score a TD weighed 417 pounds. Well, actually, it was two Redskins: Linebacker Rod Stephens hoisted Darrell Green and carried him the last few steps on Darrell’s game-winning interception return against the Lions in 1995.

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From a Dan Bickley column last week in the Arizona Republic: “An estimated 12million Americans are playing fantasy football. The disease is so out of control that, on a recent Sunday, employee computers at Denver International Airport logged more than 30,000 hits to football Web sites.”

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Maybe I should have flown into Colorado Springs yesterday and driven to Denver.

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