New-look Redskins get test vs. reigning AFC champs

Evan Royster has never been through anything like it. Not in high school in Virginia, not in college at Penn State. He's a sixth-round draft pick who started at Square One two weeks ago learning the complex NFL play book of the Washington Redskins offense.

And now he's got a game to play.

"It's almost like not going to class for whole semester -- and then trying to cram for a final exam," he said.

Preseason NFL games are already notoriously sloppy, over-long and sleep-inducing, but things should be more adventurous than usual this time around. No one is expecting a clinic when the Redskins host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Friday night.