Washington Activates Three Players From COVID-19 List Including DT Matt Ioannidis

The Washington Football team announced it activated OT Cornelius Lucas, DT Matt Ioannidis and CB Chris Miller off the Reserve/COVID-19 list on Tuesday and DB Deshazor Everett from the non-football injury list. 

Ioannidis, 27, is a former fifth-round pick by Washington out of Temple back in 2016. He was entering the final year of his four-year, $2,340,000 contract and set to make a base salary of $720,000 for the 2019 season when he signed a three-year, $21.75 million extension in 2019. 

Ioannidis is set to make a base salary of $6.6 million in 2021.

In 2020, Ioannidis appeared in three games for Washington and recorded seven total tackles, including two for a loss, and 1.5 sacks. Pro Football Focus had him rated as the No. 41 interior defender out of 119 qualifying players. 

Lucas, 30, signed with the Lions as an undrafted free agent out of Kansas State in 2014. He made the 53-man roster in each year of his three-year, $1,550,000 contract with the Lions.

Lucas returned to the Lions on a restricted deal for the 2017 season, but was among the team’s final roster cuts. The Rams signed him to a contract a few weeks into the regular season and brought him back on a new deal in 2018. 

The Rams cut Lucas coming out of the preseason and he was on and off of the Saints’ roster in 2018 before eventually joining the Bears in 2019.

Last offseason, Lucas signed a two-year, $3.8 million deal with Washington.

In 2020, Lucas appeared in 14 games for Washington, making eight starts.