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Commanders Hoping For Defensive Star With Second-Year Linebacker<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Washington Commanders took a lot of pride in their defense this past season, and it could get even better in 2025 if a few key players step up like they are expected to.<\/p>\n

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In a recent appearance on 106.7 The Fan, Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post talked about the team’s defensive unit. And she said that she thinks sophomore linebacker Jordan Magee has a chance to have a very big role in 2025.<\/p>\n

“Jordan Magee has the chance to take a huge leap,” Jhabvala said. “In part because he played so few defensive snaps last season with injuries and whatnot. And he’s getting a lot of reps because Bobby Wagner doesn’t need these minicamp reps. And he does look more confident out there. I know DQ [Dan Quinn] and Adam Peters have raved about him. They really expect him to take a major leap this year.”<\/p>\n

Washington selected Magee with the 139th pick in the fifth round of the 2024 NFL Draft, but he was limited to just eight games as a result of some injuries that he suffered. So he will be hoping to stay healthy and on the field in his second season in the league.<\/p>\n

In his final season at Temple University, he racked up an impressive 80 total tackles, 14 of which were for a loss. He was also able to show his versatility with 3.5 sacks as well as four pass deflections.<\/p>\n

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If Magee can step up in his sophomore year like the team knows he can, then he could really push the team’s defensive unit over the top.<\/p>\n

Related: Brian Robinson Jr. Focused on Breakout Season in Contract Year<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Commanders Sophomore Corner Labeled Prime Breakout Candidate<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 17, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commanders Hoping For Defensive Star With Second-Year Linebacker originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Washington Commanders took a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[18766,4141,1740,427,29943,7,28485,6,32353,1170,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-137615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-106-7-the-fan","9":"tag-adam-peters","10":"tag-bobby-wagner","11":"tag-commanders","12":"tag-defensive-unit","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jordan-magee","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nicki-jhabvala","17":"tag-trey-amos","18":"tag-washington","19":"tag-washington-commanders","20":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137615","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=137615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}