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DALLAS — Redskins team president Bruce Allen will be out of running the team’s football operations by Monday, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation informed NBC Sports Washington.

A Redskins spokesperson was not immediately available for comment. The team is traveling to Dallas for its final game of the season.

This is a developing story as Allen’s role within the organization runs beyond just football and it’s unclear what other changes will happen but the immediate news is that after a decade in charge of the Redskins on the field Allen will no longer serve that role. 

In the 10 years since Allen was hired the Redskins have more than 100 losses and no playoff victories. 

The team has fired two head coaches - Mike Shanahan and Jay Gruden - and has started more than 10 different quarterbacks. 

There have been plenty of ugly off-field situations as well, most notably the ouster of former general manager Scot McCloughan and the holdout of Pro Bowl tackle Trent Williams following a health scare.

The Redskins are set to take on the Cowboys on Sunday afternoon with Bill Callahan installed as interim head coach. 

Win or lose, this will be the team’s worst season since 2014.

Fan frustration with Allen reached a boiling point this season as FedEx Field became a national punchline. While some diehards fans remain, countless tickets went unused or were taken by visiting fans. 

Multiple national news outlets ran stories about cheap ticket prices and how the Redskins “plummeted to rock bottom.”

Sources have told NBC Sports Washington earlier this week that team owner Dan Snyder has been working with a select group of football advisers to determine his next steps with the team and that Snyder wants to move quickly. Allen was not included in Snyder’s advisory board.

The Redskins have been connected with former NFL head coaches Ron Rivera and Marvin Lewis as well as current Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy. Former college coach Urban Meyer has also been linked with the Redskins job, and that could be in an executive capacity, not just as a coach. 

CBS Sports also reported that Snyder has done "research" on former Texans GM Rick Smith and former Washington executive Louis Riddick, now an ESPN analyst. 

It's unclear what other changes could come to the Redskins front office. 

Allen's removal could lead to internal promotions for other employees or the addition of an outside hire. 

Regardless, for years it seemed that Allen would keep his position atop the Redskins football organization, but eventually, everything ends. 

Come Monday, at least the football operations part, ends for Allen. 

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Besides the obvious selection of pass rusher Chase Young, two 2020 Redskins draft picks that excited many fans were a pair of fourth-rounders.

The first was the choice of LSU tackle Saahdiq Charles, who the Redskins nabbed with the second pick in the fourth round. 36 picks later, Washington added lengthy pass-catcher Antonio Gandy-Golden from Liberty.

The two selections were viewed as positive ones by many, mainly because of the potential that both Charles and Gandy-Golden have. But it's no secret that each one of them has their own fair share of question marks.

With the coronavirus pandemic eliminating all in-person offseason activities including rookie minicamp and OTAs, NBC Sports' Josh Norris wonders how much of an impact Gandy-Golden and Charles will truly be able to have as rookies in 2020.

"Antonio Gandy-Golden to me is kind of like a discount Tee Higgins, the 33rd overall pick," Norris told the Redskins Talk podcast. "Height, acrobatic, all that stuff. Again, I cannot imagine what the transition is going to be, Liberty to the NFL without a true offseason program without rookie minicamp, I don't know how much you can ask that type of player in his rookie season."

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Gandy-Golden was not selected until the fourth round partially due to the competition he faced at Liberty, a school that just made the jump to the FBS level two season ago. While the wideout may not have gone to a Power Five school, all he did during his time at Liberty was produce. Over his final two seasons in college, he finished with a combined 150 catches for 2,433 yards and 20 touchdowns.

One area the wideout excelled the most in college was using his lengthy, 6-foot-4 frame to haul in contested catches down the field on vertical routes. In Washington, Norris wonders if he'll be given the chance to do so, considering the team already has a few pass-catchers that shine in that aspect.

"When I went back and watched him, it was a lot of vertical routes that were tested and just create acrobatic catches," Norris said. "Again, who knows how different the offense is going to be in Washington. I'm not saying it's going to be a one-for-one, but where Scott Turner asked [{anthers wideout] Curtis Samuel to play last year was a lot of vertical routes. Obviously, Terry McLaurin was great at that his rookie year as well"

As Norris explains, Turner, Washington's new offensive coordinator, sent one of his smaller, faster receivers on vertical routes a lot last season. Should he want to do that with the Redskins, he has two obvious choices in McLaurin and second-year wideout Steven Sims. Speed has never been Gandy-Golden's strength, and his 4.6 40-yard dash time at the Scouting Combine proved that.

The analyst is a little higher on Charles' outlook, who has the chance to compete for the team's starting left tackle spot in 2020 with Trent Williams now in San Francisco. While Norris thinks the Redskins may have gotten a "steal" in Charles, potentially having to rely on a rookie fourth-round pick at the most important position along the offensive line is not ideal for Washington.

"Is that what you want to rely on? That's tough," he said. "That's the spot they found themselves in."

Norris explained that the preseason will be telling for what the Redskins can expect from Charles as a rookie.

"So often with these players, you have a much better view of who they are once preseason games roll around, like two games of the preseason than 12 games at the college level," Norris said. "I would much rather have those two exposures against true NFL players than LSU just whooping up on everyone down there and going against those pass rushers."

When Ron Rivera took over as Redskins head coach in January, he filled out his staff with a bunch of his former colleagues from Carolina. One of those was offensive line coach John Matsko, who served that role in Carolina for all nine seasons that Rivera was the head coach. 

During his tenure with the Panthers, Matsko has earned the reputation as one of the best offensive line coaches across the league, partially due to his ability to get the most out of his players. Norris believes that Matsko could have the same success with Charles as he did with some of his former offensive linemen in the past.

"They turned some undrafted players into starters [in Carolina]," Norris said. "Greg Van Roten was one, Andrew Norwell was one, and both of those guys got pretty hefty contracts. Trai Turner was only a third-round selection. They did some development. They haven't had top left tackle talent down there. When they went to the Super Bowl, Michael Oher was their left tackle. He was up and down at all times. They've done some very good development."

Norris concluded by saying that Charles doesn't need to turn into a top tackle in the NFL in order to have success with the Redskins. Rather, what's most important for the rookie is learning how to work well alongside the other four members of the unit.

"You don't need to have top-end talent at every spot along the offensive line," Norris said. "You need to kind of have five players that work well together, and then that can hopefully become a successful offensive line."

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At times, Trent Williams still has to remind himself he's a 49er and not a Redskin. That's what the left tackle, who's now in San Francisco after a decade with Washington, told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport during a recent episode of the RapSheet and Friends podcast.

There's no confusion on Williams' part, however, when it comes to how he feels about his new home.

"I've loved every second of it," he said. "I was welcomed with warm, open arms."

One of the reasons Williams is so optimistic about his next team is because of the man he'll be blocking for in Jimmy Garoppolo. After dealing with a game of "musical chairs" at passer with the Burgundy and Gold for nearly his entire tenure with the franchise, the Pro Bowler sounded relieved as he described how much more settled the situation is with the Niners.

"I think Jimmy G is awesome," Williams said. "As proven, I think he's a quarterback you can win with in this league. It's just hard to find a quarterback, it's the toughest position to pin down."

Sure, Williams took the field with Kirk Cousins during the three-year stretch when Cousins started every single game for the Redskins, but he also was around for the likes of Donovan McNabb, Rex Grossman, John Beck, Mark Sanchez, Josh Johnson, Colt McCoy and the exhausting rise and fall of Robert Griffin III. 

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Therefore, you can forgive him for looking so favorably at Garoppolo, who's coming off a Super Bowl appearance. Or, if you're a Redskins fan — and if you're reading NBCSportsWashington.com, you probably are — maybe you'll instead just get angrier at Williams. 

Either way, it's clear that the 32-year-old is quite content with the unit he's now a part of, which features not only Garoppolo but also George Kittle, Deebo Samuel and multiple skilled running backs.

"I'm extremely happy to just be a part of an offense that really doesn't need me to win," Williams said. "I can add to it."

He's happy, and, OK, you're most likely not. That's understandable.

So, just keep circling that Dec. 13 trip, when the Redskins travel out west to take on the 49ers.

Keep. Circling. It.

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