WASHINGTON — Looks can be deceiving, but if Junior Galette’s workout videos serve as incontrovertible proof, the Redskins linebacker appears to have fully recovered from a torn Achilles’.

Galette signed a one-year, veteran minimum deal with the Redskins late last summer, coming off a tumultuous offseason that included being cut by the Saints one year into a four-year contract, due in part to a domestic violence arrest in Jan. 2015, the charges from which were later dropped.

Coach Jay Gruden was overjoyed about the immediate pass-rushing threat Galette added to the Redskins’ defense; he was equally glum when Galette went down in training camp with a season-ending torn left Achilles’.

On Wednesday, Galette posted a series of videos to Twitter illustrating his speed and agility have returned since having his Achilles’ surgically repaired last August.

By now you probably heard of me...Fresh out of Surgery😡😡 pic.twitter.com/7zPySkNx0y — BETA REY BILL (@JovaisG) February 24, 2016

“His rehab’s coming along great,” Gruden said from the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. “I see him in there every morning and he’s excited to get back on the field, that’s for sure. I feel good about getting Junior back, I really do. We didn’t have him very long on the field, unfortunately, but he showed enough on the field that he can be a force for us when he’s healthy. And I think he’s doing everything he can to get his body right.”

GM Scot McCloughan first met Galette in a Richmond hotel room last summer. He wanted to know Galette’s off-field issues wouldn’t follow him from New Orleans to D.C. Via 106.7 The Fan’s Brian McNally:

The two men got face-to-face in an emotional meeting that left Galette in tears as he left the room, convinced that he’d found an NFL team willing to give him a second chance. He had to sign for the veteran minimum. And the deal was for just one year with the Redskins owning the right-of-first-refusal for 2016. But it was a chance. And for a player who was arrested on a domestic assault charge in January – later dropped – and accused of hitting a woman with a belt during a Miami beach brawl in 2013, that was all he wanted.

Galette appears committed to the organization that gave him a new lease on his NFL career. In January, he expressed his gratitude with a permanent reminder in the form of a Redskins logo tattoo onto his right shoulder. Washington still needs to re-sign Galette, though.

“Now it’s a matter of getting him signed, obviously, getting him on our football team,” Gruden said on Wednesday. “I feel good about our chances doing that, but you never know.”

@JovaisG I can't wait to share a field with this dude. He's special. One of those type pass rushers that don't come along often — OG aka CAPTAIN 23 (@DeAngeloHall23) February 24, 2016

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