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Commanders To Re-Sign DL Clelin Ferrell

March 15th, 2025 at 9:47am CST by Ben Levine

The Commanders continue to retain many of their own free agents. The latest addition to the list is defensive lineman Clelin Ferrell, who is re-signing with the organization, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. It’s a new one-year contract for the veteran, per ESPN’s John Keim.

Ferrell joined Washington last offseason, inking a one-year deal with the organization. The veteran ended up appearing in 14 games (10 starts) for his new squad, collecting 26 tackles and 3.5 sacks while getting into more than 40 of the Commanders’ defensive snaps.

The 27-year-old only ranked 110th among 199 qualifying edge defenders on Pro Football Focus’ leader boards, but he was closer to league average in previous stops. The fourth-overall pick in 2019, Ferrell struggled to live up to his draft billing while playing with the Raiders, but he still finished his four-year tenure with 10 sacks. He spent the 2023 campaign with the 49ers, where he started all 17 games.

Following the Commanders’ surprising run to the NFC Championship Game, the team has put in an effort to re-sign many of their free agents. On defense, the team has retained cornerback Noah Igbinoghene, linebacker/special-teamer Nick Bellore, and D-line cog Sheldon Day.

Minor NFL Transactions: 3/14/25

March 14th, 2025 at 10:25pm CST by Ely Allen

Friday’s minor NFL moves after a busy week of transactions:

Arizona Cardinals

Atlanta Falcons

Buffalo Bills

Detroit Lions

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Los Angeles Chargers

Los Angeles Rams

Miami Dolphins

New York Giants

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

Seattle Seahawks

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tennessee Titans

Washington Commanders

Commanders To Add OL Nate Herbig

March 14th, 2025 at 2:19pm CST by Sam Robinson

The Steelers’ brother tandems are thinning out, as the Herbigs will go by way of the Watt pair on the roster. Nate Herbig is heading to Washington on a one-year deal, ESPN.com’s Jeremy Fowler tweets.

A 30-game starter during his career, Herbig was to open last season as Pittsburgh’s starting center. But a shoulder injury ended Herbig’s season before it could begin. While this opened the door for rookie Zach Frazier, Herbig will leave for another opportunity.

Also rostering outside linebacker Nick Herbig, the Steelers employed Nate for two seasons. They used him in 17 games (two starts) in 2023, though the older of the Herbig brothers enjoyed more prominent roles elsewhere. The Eagles used Nate Herbig as a 17-game starter from 2020-21, while he started all 11 games he played for the 2022 Jets.

The Commanders are planning on moving the former UDFA into the guard mix, Fowler adds. Washington has Tyler Biadasz locked in at center and Sam Cosmi entrenched at right guard. The team signed Nick Allegretti from the Chiefs in 2024, pairing him with ex-Kansas City teammate Andrew Wylie at RT. Laremy Tunsil is taking over at left tackle after this week’s trade.

Displaced LT Brandon Coleman could loom as a swingman, while the Commanders also brought back interior swing Michael Deiter and fellow backup Trenton Scott on Thursday night. Herbig, 26, is dropped into a crowded situation.

That said, Herbig was on track to at least play in front of Frazier to open the 2024 Steelers’ season. Pittsburgh placing him on IR (with a torn rotator cuff) before setting its 53-man roster nixed that path, and Frazier is now the team’s surefire center starter after going off the 2024 draft board in Round 2. The Steelers still have the Heyward brothers, but Derek Watt‘s retirement coming as the Steelers’ two Edmundses disbanded leaves them with only the DL-TE tandem after Nate Herbig’s Friday move. Two years remain on Nick Herbig’s rookie deal.

Commanders Re-Sign Michael Deiter, Trent Scott, Nick Bellore, Sheldon Day

March 13th, 2025 at 7:31pm CST by Sam Robinson

Already retaining two auxiliary wide receivers today (Noah Brown, K.J. Osborn) and cornerback Noah Igbinoghene, the Commanders are adding several other 2024 holdovers to their immense Thursday re-signing ledger.

The 2024 NFC runner-up reached agreements to retain offensive linemen Michael Deiter and Trent Scott, along with veteran linebacker/special-teamer Nick Bellore and D-line cog Sheldon Day, according to NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo, the Washington Post’s Nicki Jhabvala and ESPN.com’s John Keim.

Deiter, Day and Scott are coming back on one-year deals, while Jhabvala notes Bellore is staying on a two-year pact. If this was not enough of a roster-ballooning effort today, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport adds the Commanders are signing edge rusher Jacob Martin to a one-year deal worth up to $3MM. Unlike the above quartet, Martin was not a Commander in 2024. He will come over from the Bears.

Deiter and Scott worked as utility pieces on Washington’s O-line, combining to start three regular-season games. Scott, however, drew a right guard start after Sam Cosmi went down during the team’s divisional-round loss.

Deiter, 28, is a five-year veteran who previously played for the Dolphins and Texans. Miami used Deiter as a 23-game starter, while he lined up as a 10-game starter — mostly at center — in 2023. Scott, 30, has ventured from the Chargers to the Panthers to the Steelers to the Commanders. In addition to his NFC championship game start, he caught a touchdown pass in his Washington debut season.

Day has connections to GM Adam Peters from San Francisco. Having just four regular-season starts in nine seasons, Day logged three playoff starts for the Super Bowl LIV-bound 49ers. The veteran defensive tackle logged a 35% snap rate for the Commanders last season, notching two tackles for loss and a pass deflection. Day, 30, and Javon Kinlaw were not 49ers teammates, with the former going on a four-team odyssey by the time Kinlaw arrived (2020) in San Francisco, but Peters was in San Francisco during each DT’s tenure.

The Commanders still value Bellore ahead of an age-36 season. He came over after four Seattle seasons (two special-teamer Pro Bowl nods) and logged a 76% snap rate on ST snaps. Bellore, who dabbled at fullback previously, saw one defensive snap last season.

Martin, 29, comes over after a host of rotational pass-rushing roles. Involved in the Seahawks-Texans Jadeveon Clowney trade in 2019, Martin is now on team No. 7. Also traded to the Broncos at the 2022 deadline, Martin moved to the Colts in 2022 and Bears in ’23. He has combined for five sacks over the past two seasons, registering 21 during a six-year career. He joins a Commanders team that returns Dan Quinn pickup Dorance Armstrong but not yet Dante Fowler, the team’s 2024 sack leader. Given the reunion spree, it would surprise if the Commanders were not considering re-signing Fowler as well.

Commanders To Re-Sign Noah Igbinoghene

March 13th, 2025 at 4:55pm CST by Adam La Rose

The Commanders used Noah Igbinoghene as a starter for much of the 2024 season, and he will remain in place for 2025. The former first-round corner is re-signing with Washington, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.

[RELATED: Commanders To Sign CB Jonathan Jones]

Igbinoghene struggled to carve out a role during his time with the Dolphins. The 30th-overall pick in the 2020 draft, the cornerback was limited to only 32 games across three seasons in Miami. He was traded to the Cowboys as part of the Kelvin Joseph trade ahead of the 2023 campaign, but he only got into five games with his new squad.

Despite his lack of action in Dallas, he was recruited by former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn to join him in Washington for the 2023 season. Igbinoghene proceeded to have a career year with the Commanders, starting 10 of his 17 appearances while finishing with 55 tackles and seven passes defended. Pro Football Focus wasn’t all that impressed by his efforts, grading him as the second-worst CB among 116 qualifying players.

Still, the Commanders seem to value the continuity in their secondary, as Igbinoghene will at least be temporarily penciled in towards the top of the depth chart. Mike Sainristil and Marshon Lattimore are still slated to earn the bulk of the snaps at the position, but Igbinoghene should still get reps at nickelback. He will have some additional competition, though, as the team brought in former Patriots mainstay Jonathan Jones yesterday.

Ben Levine contributed to this post.

Commanders To Re-Sign WR Noah Brown

March 13th, 2025 at 12:39pm CST by Sam Robinson

Authoring one play that will go down in franchise history, Noah Brown suffered a season-ending injury weeks after his Hail Mary touchdown. But the Commanders want to keep going with the former Cowboys and Texans wide receiver.

Brown is re-signing with Washington on a one-year deal worth up to $4.5MM, ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweets. Brown had overlapped with Dan Quinn in Dallas, before playing two seasons in Houston. Brown is coming off an injury that ended his season in early December. He had previously indicated hope a Commanders re-signing would commence.

Following K.J. Osborn in re-signing with Washington, Brown played a more notable role than the late-season slot addition. Coming over after a late-summer Texans release, Brown caught 35 passes for 453 yards in his Commanders debut. While the Jayden Daniels heave that began a Bears tailspin inflated Brown’s yardage total, the former Texas-stationed WR posted four other games with more than 50 receiving yards. He will be back and set to vie for a job as an auxiliary piece alongside Terry McLaurin and Deebo Samuel.

A clear-cut backup for his first five NFL seasons, Brown caught on as a reliable target in 2022 and has remained such since. Following the Cowboys’ Amari Cooper trade, Brown stepped into a bigger role and posted 555 receiving yards in 2022. The Texans added him on a one-year deal in 2023, and the 225-pound target helped a team depleted at receiver. Brown’s 567-yard, two-touchdown season aided C.J. Stroud during his Offensive Rookie of the Year season. Brown has since played supporting roles for back-to-back Offensive Rookies of the Year.

Brown’s skillset differs from Osborn’s, as the latter has been primarily a slot player during his career. Both will have a clear chance to supplement the recently formed McLaurin-Samuel duo. Brown is going into his age-29 season. Despite not surpassing 185 yards in a season, he is still going ahead of a ninth NFL campaign. Although Washington added Samuel, the team has otherwise been retention-heavy with its skill-position group. Zach Ertz, John Bates and Jeremy McNichols are back in the fold as well.

The re-signings of Osborn and Brown come after the Commanders met with Michael Gallup, a long-running Brown Cowboys teammate who recently unretired. Gallup visited the Commanders on Tuesday, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport tweets. A 2024 Cowboys release, Gallup (29) retired after joining the Raiders. A 2021 ACL tear altered Gallup’s career, but he still had scored a Cowboys payday weeks later. Not clearing 500 receiving yards in a season since 2020, Gallup appears to be searching for a path back into the league.

Commanders To Re-Sign WR K.J. Osborn

March 13th, 2025 at 11:17am CST by Sam Robinson

Formerly a productive slot receiver in Minnesota, K.J. Osborn did not build on that work in New England. A Patriots team in need of steady receiving aid shopped Osborn before last year’s deadline and eventually cut him, leading Washington to take a flier.

The Commanders are set to see if Osborn can return to his pre-2024 form, as ESPN’s Adam Schefter notes the ex-Viking regular is re-signing on a one-year deal in Washington. Osborn is heading into his sixth NFL season.

Washington has lost four-year tertiary target Dyami Brown (to the Jaguars), but the team already made a splash to land an inside receiver by sending the 49ers a fifth-round pick for Deebo Samuel. The versatile All-Pro will become Terry McLaurin‘s top complementary option, but the team remains in need of players to operate around their top two. Noah Brown, Olamide Zaccheaus multi-stint Washington target Jamison Crowder are unsigned at this point.

An effective third option alongside Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen in Minnesota in 2021 and ’22, Osborn surpassed 600 receiving yards in each season and combined for 12 touchdown receptions. He added 540 yards and three scores during a 2023 season that brought a Kirk Cousins Achilles tear, but a modest market formed — ahead of a one-year, $4MM Patriots pact — and the former fifth-round pick managed only seven catches with New England. Even as the Patriots played a season in need at the position, Osborn did not provide much help.

Extensive shopping did not lead to a trade, even though the Chargers were believed to have interest. The Pats waived Osborn in December, and while he landed in Washington via waiver claim, he played in just one game and did not see any playoff action. Essentially, Osborn will look to forget 2024. Going into his age-28 campaign, the Michigan native will have a full offseason in Kliff Kingsbury‘s offense.

Commanders Agree To Sign DE Deatrich Wise

March 12th, 2025 at 11:26pm CST by Ely Allen

The Commanders continue to rebuild their defensive line for the 2025 NFL season. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the team will add defensive end Deatrich Wise on a one-year, $5MM contract.

After watching Jonathan Allen depart for Minnesota in free agency and seeing the contracts of Clelin Ferrell and Dante Fowler expire, Washington was going to need to address a defensive line that, despite the return of Daron Payne, Dorance Armstrong, and Jer’Zhan Newton, lacked depth and experience. The team started with the huge, impact addition of defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw and followed that up today with another defensive tackle in Eddie Goldman and Wise.

Wise has resided in New England ever since the Patriots drafted him in the fourth round in 2017. Over an eight-year career in New England, Wise appeared in 126 of a possible 131 games and made 61 starts. He’s pretty consistently averaged just over 4.5 sacks per season while totaling 34 tackles for loss and 90 quarterback hits. Early in his career, as a rotational rusher, Wise consistently got after the quarterback, with 9.5 sacks and 35 quarterback hits in his first two seasons. It took him another three years to pass three sacks in a season after that.

Over his eight years in the NFL with the Patriots, Wise only spent two years (2022 & 2023) as a full-time starter. He took advantage of that first season, seeing career highs in sacks (7.5), total tackles (59), and tackles for loss (7) while adding 11 quarterback hits. In 2023, though, his time as a full-time starter was less effective, only resulting in 4.5 sacks, three tackles for loss, and six quarterback hits. He had a resurgent 2024 campaign, despite missing two games, totaling five sacks, five tackles for loss, and eight quarterback hits.

Due to a lack of depth and options, Wise projects to be a starter across from Armstrong at the moment in Washington. Additional free agent or draft additions could certainly change that outlook, though, and put Wise back into position as a rotational rusher.

In New England, the Patriots aren’t losing too much along the defensive line besides Wise, and they’ve added a significant piece in former Eagles defensive tackle Milton Williams and a depth piece in former Cardinals defensive tackle Khyiris Tonga. It’s not apples and apples, but the presence of those two along the defensive front should give New England plenty of alignment options with the staff they now have.

Commanders To Sign DT Eddie Goldman

March 12th, 2025 at 11:15pm CST by Sam Robinson

Eddie Goldman has unretired twice, having sat out the 2022 and ’23 seasons. The former Bears mainstay, however, made a return stick last season and did enough to secure a signing early in free agency.

The Commanders are bringing in the veteran nose tackle, ESPN.com’s Jeremy Fowler tweets. Once the recipient of a big-ticket Chicago extension, Goldman managed to earn an extended chance from Atlanta despite entering the 2024 season having missed three of the previous four years. That certainly makes this Washington agreement noteworthy.

Despite entering the league in 2015, Goldman is still just 31. That undoubtedly helped keep teams interested, but Goldman is coming off a 10-start season. The Falcons had signed him in 2022, only to see him retire. They allowed Goldman to come off the reserve/retired list in 2023; he re-retired. Last year, though, Goldman played in all 17 Falcons games and stuck around even as a new coaching staff arrived.

Although a new coaching staff came in, the GM that had both drafted and extended Goldman in Chicago (Ryan Pace) remained in Terry Fontenot‘s front office. Goldman and Pace will separate now, with the split coming after the resurgent D-tackle played 331 snaps. That nearly matched his total from his final Bears season. The Bears cut Goldman early in Ryan Poles‘ GM tenure, but after Pace helped bring him to Atlanta, he will move on and join a Commanders team that has seen changes at this position.

Washington released Jonathan Allen after eight seasons; that move came months after the team cut Phidarian Mathis. A door seemingly swung open for Johnny Newton, but the Commanders gave ex-49ers first-rounder Javon Kinlaw a three-year, $45MM deal. Newton may join Goldman as a second-stringer next season, should Goldman make the Commanders’ 53-man roster. An 83-game starter, the former second-round pick will attempt to play an eighth NFL season.

Minor NFL Transactions: 3/12/25

March 12th, 2025 at 10:59pm CST by Sam Robinson

Here are the minor moves from the first day of the 2025 league year:

Atlanta Falcons

Baltimore Ravens

Carolina Panthers

Cincinnati Bengals

Dallas Cowboys

Detroit Lions

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Minnesota Vikings

New England Patriots

New York Giants

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

San Francisco 49ers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tennessee Titans

Washington Commanders

Yes, a few of these players have graduated from our minor-moves sector, but today’s signing blitz being what it was, they land here. Ford highlights the batch contractually, agreeing (per ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter) to a two-year, $4MM deal. Ford played on more than 70% of Cleveland’s special teams snaps over the past two seasons.

Trask will reprise his role as Baker Mayfield‘s backup, with NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport indicating the former second-round pick is staying on a one-year, $2.79MM contract. Trask and Mayfield competed for the job in 2023, but as was the case with the Drew Lock–Geno Smith battle a year prior, the winner never looked back. Trask will be in place for a fifth Bucs season, having moved from third-stringer during the Tom Brady era to QB2 in the Mayfield years.

Hawkins will stay with the Patriots on a two-year deal worth up to $2.2MM, according to the Boston Herald’s Doug Kyed. A 2022 full-time Falcons starter, Hawkins saw Jessie Bates replace him in 2023. The Falcons later waived Hawkins, who ended up on the Chargers in 2023. The Pats used him as a seven-game starter in 2024, when he made 48 tackles (three for loss).

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