Leon Washington said Thursday that he's "reasonably optimistic" about being ready to play next season. In an interview with the Florida Times-Union, his hometown paper in Jacksonville, Washington addressed several things, including the injury itself and the contractual implications the injury might have on his future. "I'm reasonably optimistic I'll be good to go by the start of the 2010 season,'' Washington said. "When the team gets back [for offseason workouts] in March, it's my goal to be moving around pretty good. "Getting injured was the last thing on my mind. When it happened after my first carry of the game, I was almost in shock. It really didn't hurt that much. I felt a pop in the leg. It felt like slow motion, like it came 10 seconds after the guy rolled on my knee. "I could feel my right leg dangling by itself. I was real nonchalant, thinking, 'I broke my leg.' "