Commanders depth chart, upcoming free agents and roster issues for the 2025 offseason

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GM Adam Peters and head coach Dan Quinn return to a team with a roster that probably cannot yet be said to have a substantial ‘core’. The approach in 2024 was to replace most of the ‘23 roster with new players, primarily drawn from veteran free agency, and with a strong reliance on one-year contracts, creating a situation where the Commanders, last month, prior to signing future contracts with practice squad players, had the fewest players under contract in the NFL per Over the Cap.

Future contracts are signed in January and February each year with practice-squad quality players who are not on any team’s…