The Commanders are about to lose a lot of players; however, Jayden Daniels could attract some very good players as well.
Pro Football Talk hosts Mike Florio and Chris Simms discussed this briefly Wednesday.
General manager Adam Peters will have about the next six weeks to sign which of Washington’s free agents Peters wants around for 2025.
Then, once the new league year begins in March, what about other free agents from other NFL teams? Might Peters have a card to play he did not have in his hand last March?
Regarding a report near the trade deadline in October that players were telling agents they wanted to be traded to the Commanders, Mike Florio responded, “I thought that was a load of crap; I thought it was overdone.”
Florio quickly continued, “But, I don’t think it will be overdone (during the free agency signing period in March), and I think it will be factor.”
“I think Jayden Daniels’ performance over the course of the year and specifically in the postseason is going to attract guys with options, ‘all things equal, I am going to go play for the Commanders’. We are going to see that in free agency this year.”
Former Tampa Bay Bucs QB Chris Simms feels strongly about this as well.
“Things are on the up in Washington; there’s no doubt about that,” Simms said. “With Jayden Daniels, Dan Quinn, Adam Peters…ownership certainly seems different, a stadium in the future. So, there’s lots of things I could see making the Commanders a pretty destination for guys (FA) out there. And the quarterback being the number one thing there, definitely.”
