Chargers Again Raid Redskins

Will the last person to leave Redskin Park please turn out the lights?

The exodus from Washington to San Diego continued Thursday with the announcement that Dick Daniels, Redskin director of player personnel, has joined the Chargers as assistant general manager.

Daniels is the fifth former Redskin employee to move to the Chargers in the past year. The switch reunites him with Bobby Beathard, the new Charger general manager who held the same position with the Redskins until last season.

“It’s great to be back working with Bobby,” Daniels said. “I’ve been around him a long time, and I know how hard he works and the kind of work ethic he expects.”

Daniels, 45, was a defensive back with Dallas, Chicago and Miami from 1966-71. He first worked with Beathard as a scout when Beathard was director of player personnel with the Miami Dolphins in the early 1970s.

He rejoined Beathard in Washington in 1978 and had remained there except for one year when he served as vice president in charge of player personnel for the Los Angeles Express of the defunct United States Football League.

Daniels said he was under contract to the Redskins until June but that the team agreed to release him immediately. Daniels said his new position will carry more responsibility for player contracts than his job with the Redskins.

He said he missed working with Beathard last season after Beathard resigned and later took a job as a commentator with NBC Sports.

“It was not the same coming into work on Monday or Tuesday morning with Bobby not there,” Daniels said.