The Washington Commanders were one of the surprise teams of the 2024 season, taking a strong rookie campaign from quarterback Jayden Daniels all the way to an NFC Championship Game appearance.
After ending the 2023 campaign as the second-worst team in the NFL, fortunes quickly changed for the Commanders. They hired a new head coach (Dan Quinn), a new offensive coordinator (Kliff Kingsbury), and a new general manager (Adam Peters), who drafted a new quarterback (Daniels) with the No. 2 overall pick.
At the deadline, rather than being sellers like they were the season prior, the Commanders actually pushed their chips in, trading for New Orleans Saints star cornerback Marshon Lattimore(and a fifth-round pick) in exchange for third-, fourth-, and sixth-round picks in this year’s draft.