The NFL draft is only a couple of months in our collective rear-view mirror, but the 24/7 NFL news cycle makes it seem like a lifetime ago. For players, coaches and staff, this period of the offseason is an interesting time where even the tiniest of choices can have wide-ranging consequences for the future of a franchise.

The preseason is set to kick off in about seven weeks at the annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. It's a fitting time to check in and see how each team is doing as it looks to climb the ladder of success toward the 2013 NFL season.

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This is part of a series of videos grading NFL teams' offseasons, from the opening of free agency to the end of the draft, up through OTAs and minicamps.

The major theme governing this offseason for the Washington Redskins has obviously been the status of their superstar quarterback, Robert Griffin III. 

Well, that and whether the team should change its name. But let's keep this on the football side of things, shall we?

In the video above, I give my grades for free agency and the draft, as well as the team's offseason overall.

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As an American citizen, Roger Goodell can't accept the noble title of "King." As the appointed ruler of the NFL, though, Commissioner Goodell eventually gets everything he wants.

He wants an NFL franchise in London.

"It’s going to be London’s team," Goodell told an NYU conference, per the New York Post's Bart Hubbuch. "It’ll be the London Whatevers playing the New York Giants. The logistics we can work out."

The royal subjects of Queen Elizabeth II had better start saving their quid for PSLs, because the London Whatevers are coming:

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June is the time of the NFL season when the luster starts to come off many of the rookies drafted this past April.

It's only natural, really, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Teams draft for the long term. They want to set these franchises up for more than just fleeting successes. Thus, some players are going to need more than one month to really be ready for the NFL.

Of course, to the media that covers these teams 24/7 and the fans that gobble up every tidbit of news like a dog on a fresh bone, nuance and patience aren't always readily available virtues.

Negativity in the summer isn't cause for alarm or any sort of apoplectic hair-pulling. No, just like the positivity that permeates the spring following a draft, the negativity of summer must be tempered with a longer-term view of events. Growing pains are important for these players as they transition from being big men on their respective college campuses to life in the NFL.

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Peyton Manning can throw a football.

A year ago, that was news.

Since then, Manning led the Denver Broncos to a 13-3 record and the AFC's No. 1 seed, was named to his 12th Pro Bowl, earned first-team All-Pro honors for the sixth time and was christened AP Comeback Player of the Year.

Now, as the Broncos enter the season with Bovada's second-best odds to win the Super Bowl, there's no doubt Manning's fully healthy. If, as receiver Eric Decker told Andrew Mason of the Broncos official site, Manning's "come back stronger," he's primed to have an even better season.

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This is part of a series of videos grading NFL teams' offseasons, from the opening of free agency to the end of the draft, up through OTAs and minicamps.

After watching their team get embarrassed by Colin Kaepernick and the San Francisco 49ers offense in the playoffs, many Green Bay Packers fans wanted their team to make some wholesale changes on the defensive side of the ball. 

Instead, it was business as usual for general manager Ted Thompson, who kept to his usual offseason playbook of eschewing free agency and building almost strictly through the draft. 

In the video above, I give my grades for free agency and the draft, as well as the team's offseason overall.

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This is part of a series of videos grading NFL teams' offseasons, from the opening of free agency to the end of the draft, up through OTAs and minicamps.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have long been known for allowing aging veterans to walk in free agency and then filling the void with players they've drafted and developed. 

This is the offseason where that philosophy gets tested to its core. Lots of talent has gone out the door the last two years. It's time for the young players on this team to step up, including this year's rookie class. 

In the video above, I give my grades for free agency and the draft, as well as the team's offseason overall.

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