{"id":104780,"date":"2025-06-05T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/104780\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:41:10","slug":"theyll-have-an-explosive-offense-again-this-season-but-another-trade-could-possibility-give-the-washington-commanders-even-more-firepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/104780\/","title":{"rendered":"They’ll have an explosive offense again this season, but another trade could possibility give the Washington Commanders even more firepower."},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ll have an explosive offense again this season, but another trade could possibility give the Washington Commanders even more firepower.<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Washington Commanders had a potent rushing attack last season en route to a 12-5 record and conference championship berth. That ground game was dominated by the dual-threat prowess of rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, but the running backs also held their own.<\/p>\n

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Offensive coordinator guru Kliff Kingsbury has spoken highly<\/a> of starter Brian Robinson Jr. as well as veteran contributor Austin Ekeler and returning pieces\u00a0Jeremy McNichols and Chris Rodriguez Jr. He could be content rolling out this group again in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Commanders traded for Pro Bowl weapons as\u00a0more help to other areas of the offense in left tackle Laremy Tunsil and versatile receiver Deebo Samuel Sr.<\/p>\n

They’ll have an explosive offense again this season, but another trade could possibility add even more firepower.<\/p>\n

Jarrett Bailey of the Sporting News<\/a> picks Washington as a logical trade partner with the Buffalo Bills for star running back James Cook.<\/p>\n

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Cook, who led the NFL in rushing touchdowns last season (16), is in the midst of a contract dispute with the Bills front office. While Buffalo hasn’t explicitly engaged in any trade talks, not paying their leading rusher after the Bills’ other important pieces were re-signed this offseason raises some eyebrows about a potential divorce.<\/p>\n

Should both sides be interested, Bailey predicts the always active Washington GM Adam Peters to send Buffalo valuable draft capital in exchange for the ball carrier.<\/p>\n

WAS gets: RB James Cook, 2026 fourth-round pick<\/p>\n

BUF gets:\u00a02026 third-round pick, 2026 sixth-round pick<\/p>\n

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This move could push the Commanders deeper into Super Bowl contention, but might greatly limit their flexibility for the future.<\/p>\n

Trading away a Day 2 NFL Draft pick would leave Washington with no Day 2 selections next year after sending one to Houston in the deal that brought in Tunsil. That comes after only picking five rookies in this year’s Draft.<\/p>\n

While it makes sense to improve the roster as much as possible to maximize Daniels’ cheap rookie contract, this aggressiveness is a major gamble with only one payoff: a Super Bowl title.<\/p>\n

If they don’t win immediately? The Commanders would be pretty handcuffed in trying to keep that core together.<\/p>\n

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As crazy as it sounds, Washington might be better off holding onto their already slim draft capital because they may not need a guy like James Cook.<\/p>\n

If last season was any indication of the future, the Commanders are already in a Super Bowl window with the offense they currently have.<\/p>\n

While the Cook situation is intriguing to poke around at, it’s safe to assume that Washington is comfortable with where they are offensively.<\/p>\n

Related: Commanders Trade For Trey Hendrickson Pitched By ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Commanders’ Kingsbury Offers Insight On Jayden Daniels’ Bigger Physique<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 4, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They’ll have an explosive offense again this season, but another trade could possibility give the Washington Commanders even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[4142,9763,53,9764,427,12738,7,221,3027,734,10308,594,6,26821,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-104780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-austin-ekeler","9":"tag-brian-robinson-jr","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-chris-rodriguez-jr","12":"tag-commanders","13":"tag-deebo-samuel-sr","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-james-cook","17":"tag-jayden-daniels","18":"tag-kliff-kingsbury","19":"tag-laremy-tunsil","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-pieces-jeremy-mcnichols","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-washington-commanders","24":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114628217115786224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}