Fans have high expectations for Commanders rookies and some concern about veteran absence from OTAs

Rookie out-performance

In this week’s Reacts survey, we asked which of Washington’s drafted rookies was most likely to out-perform expectations as a rookie. Answering that questions requires respondents to both decide what the expectations are for each player and then project actual performance.

The results are, perhaps, slightly surprising.

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Second-round draft pick, CB Trey Amos, got the most votes in the survey. More than one-third of all survey respondents expect him to out-produce his draft position (61st overall pick in the 2025 draft).

Given that the expectations for a second-round pick are so much higher than those for Day 3 picks, this…