--Receiver D.J. Hackett, the only free agent the Redskins have brought in for a visit, signed a reported two-year, $3.5 million contract with Carolina. The Redskins had only offered Hackett, who worked with new coach Jim Zorn the past four years in Seattle, a minimum-salary deal.

"I'm excited for D.J. because I know him and I think he's a good receiver," Zorn said. "He's off and running now. He's got himself an opportunity. He used this opportunity to look at all the situations (Hackett also visited Tampa Bay and returning to Seattle was an option) and he took the one that was best for him."

Zorn said that Hackett might be the only free agent to visit.

"If something comes up, we'll run it down, but there isn't anything that I'm hot after," Zorn said.

--The "handful of guys" whom Zorn noted haven't been working out at Redskin Park includes defensive tackle Cornelius Griffin, safeties Vernon Fox and LaRon Landry, guard Pete Kendall, offensive tackles Jon Jansen and Todd Wade and receiver Santana Moss.

Wade, who has been working out in Florida, and Jansen, who has been doing the same in Michigan, are expected at Redskin Park in April.

As always, cornerback Shawn Springs is working out in Arizona. Defensive end Phillip Daniels is expected in Washington after he finishes an upcoming power-lifting competition. Running back Clinton Portis said that his buddy Moss will be on hand next week.

--On March 18, Zorn said that playbook installation was progressing well.

"We're very close for what we want to do this offseason," Zorn said. "Then it's just a matter of extending it out to training camp. The nuts and bolts, how we want to call plays, are all there. We're making sure that the pictures we put up on our Powerpoint match exactly what we want to communicate. The play selection, that's what I'm having to (decide how much to install)."

--According to Zorn, the Redskins want to re-sign their own free agents, but at bargain prices.

"You just have to wait and see who's coming after these guys," Zorn said. "If nobody's coming after them, it confirms to you that you're at the right financial package."

QUOTE TO NOTE
"This is wonderful. It's quiet. I guess this is the new Redskin way. I don't see nothing wrong with it. We're having a real quiet offseason. Hopefully we can make a big splash in the draft, get all the right people in the right spots and go from there." -- Cornerback Fred Smoot on the usually spendthrift Redskins being one of just three teams not to add a player this offseason.

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