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Washington Commanders

The phones sank the Commanders this weekend: D-.

by The Top Cat · 2026 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 2 steals · 3 reaches
Value B
Need B-
Trades F
Future B-

The phones were a trap the Commanders kept walking into, shipping out surplus on nearly every deal. Hard to defend, and the D- reflects that.

A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want. Reaching for Boerkircher left real value on the table behind him.

Landing Neal that late papers over a lot of smaller sins. They left with wide receiver solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

Add it up and it is a weekend the front office will hope everyone forgets, edge rusher very much included.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.7 · Pick 7 · Caleb Downs · S · rank 1
In No. 7 they get an enforcer at safety at fair value. More want than need.
R3.1 · Pick 65 · Christen Miller · DL · rank 59
Christen Miller at slot 65 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R3.7 · Pick 71 · Germie Bernard · WR · rank 63
Germie Bernard slipping to the 71st overall pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R3.26 · Pick 90 · Jalon Kilgore · CB · rank 104
Jalon Kilgore in pick 90 is early enough to raise a brow, if not a full objection. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R4.4 · Pick 104 · Logan Jones · C · rank 97
Nothing to complain about; Logan Jones went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R4.30 · Pick 130 · Julian Neal · CB · rank 119
Julian Neal at the Round 4 slot is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R5.7 · Pick 147 · Nate Boerkircher · TE · rank 163
They paid up for Nate Boerkircher at Round 5, Pick 7 when waiting would have done the job. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R6.2 · Pick 183 · Domani Jackson · CB · rank 179
Good price on Domani Jackson in pick No. 183, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R6.6 · Pick 187 · Kaleb Elarms-Orr · LB · rank 181
A clean, defensible pick in pick No. 187 with a little surplus value in Kaleb Elarms-Orr. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
R6.28 · Pick 209 · Kaelon Black · RB · rank 220
A reach for Kaelon Black in Round 6, Pick 28; a little patience would have been rewarded. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R7.7 · Pick 223 · Miles Kitselman · TE · rank 226
Miles Kitselman in the 223rd pick is exactly on the number, no argument either way. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
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