1992 Washington Redskins season
The 1992 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 61st season in the National Football League. The Redskins finished with a record of, making the 1992–93 NFL playoffs and winning a Wild Card game against the Minnesota Vikings before losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round. The Redskins did not qualify for the postseason again until the 1999 season. The season would be head coach Joe Gibbs' final with the team until he returned in the 2004 season.
Draft
The Redskins traded up in the first round to draft Desmond Howard, who would go on to play the most games for the Redskins of the draft class, despite only playing in 48 games for the team. He later won Super Bowl MVP as a member of the Green Bay Packers. Howard went on to have the longest career of the draft class playing 11 seasons, while the remainder of the draft class was out of league by the end of the 1997 season, all but one of which was out by the end of the 1994 season. In 2015, the entire 1992 NFL Draft was named the worst draft class from 1990 to 2015 by NFL.com.| Round | Pick | Player | Position | College |
| 1 | 4 | Desmond Howard | WR | Michigan |
| 2 | 47 | Shane Collins | DE | Arizona State |
| 3 | 74 | Paul Siever | OT | Penn State |
| 6 | 168 | Ray Rowe | TE | San Diego State |
| 8 | 224 | Darryl Moore | G | UTEP |
| 10 | 280 | Tony Barker | LB | Rice |
| 12 | 336 | Matt Elliott | C | Michigan |