One of the first official moves Adam Peters made after being named Washington Commanders general manager was trimming his roster of some key veterans. The first three players he released — Logan Thomas, Charles Leno Jr., and Nick Gates — had an average age of 31.
A couple of weeks later, Peters would purge the roster of many more veterans, including Kendall Fuller, Tyler Larsen, Jacoby Brissett, Curtis Samuel, David Mayo, and Cody Barton.
Were you to look at the overall roster age, you wouldn’t be able to call this a youth movement. While Peters was getting rid of plenty of vets, he was simultaneously adding a group of even older players, like Zach Ertz and Bobby Wagner.