Fred Smoot cried several times when he looked over to the safety position and Sean Taylor wasn’t there. Santana Moss held up his fingers to represent Taylor’s No. 21 after catching a pass. Clinton Portis revealed a T-shirt honoring Taylor after scoring the game’s only touchdown.

Drained before they ever took the field, the Washington Redskins somehow steeled their fragile emotions and played to honor their fallen teammate in front of 85,000 fans waving their No. 21 towels.

When the Redskins defense came on for the first time, Taylor’s safety position was vacant: Only 10 players were on the field for Jackson’s 22-yard run around the left end.

"It was important for the team to know that he was with us one last time on the field," Reed Doughty said. "That was special. It’s really difficult to be running out there taking over for somebody who is of legend proportions. It was really hard."  Very cool tribute- gives me chills.

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