We’re past the free agency frenzy, past the 2025 NFL draft, and well into the NFL offseason. The majority of player movement is done for a while, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be any movement at all. Most teams will work with what they have until it’s time to trim down the roster, but there will be players who have trade value.

The Washington Commanders haven’t made a habit of trading players away this offseason. In fact, the opposite is true as they are more interested in bringing in players than getting rid of any. Bleacher Report recently named one player each team should trade this summer, and while they acknowledge that there are no obvious trade candidates in Washington, the team could be better served by trading Noah Brown.

To be clear, there isn’t an obvious trade candidate on Washington’s roster. The Commanders made it very clear with the trades for wide receiver Deebo Samuel and offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil that the team is far more interested in buying than selling this offseason.

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But with Samuel and fourth-round rookie Jaylin Lane in town and K.J. Osborn back, wideout Noah Brown (who re-upped with Washington on a one-year deal) could be expendable.

Brown missed a chunk of last season with an abdominal injury, but he told reporters recently that he is 100 percent ready to go for the 2025 campaign.

“I’m just training and taking the offseason as if I finished the season healthy,” Brown said. “I’m completely ready to go. I feel like I’m built for these kind of things, and I’ll come back better on the other end.”

Brown’s not a world-beater, and he wouldn’t net a large return in a summertime deal. But the 29-year-old can stretch the field, his 6’2”, 225-pound frame is a big target in the red zone, and while Washington’s wideout room may be too crowded for Brown to get a seat at the table, there are teams with chairs available.

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The wide receivers’ room certainly has plenty of depth, but trading away the guy who caught a game-winning Hail Mary pass from Jayden Daniels would cut into some of that valuable depth. Brown’s likely worth more to the Commanders than to another team, so trading him makes little sense.

Last season, for the Commanders, Brown appeared in 11 games before his season ended prematurely due to a kidney injury. Brown finished with 35 receptions for 453 yards, averaging 12.9 yards per catch and caught one touchdown. He gained 21 first-downs and showed the propensity to draw defensive pass interference penalties, helping the Commanders get down the field any way he could. He may not see as much of the field as he’d like, but the Commanders know his value and won’t give him up easily.

This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Could the Commanders trade wide receiver Noah Brown this summer?