{"id":278635,"date":"2025-08-11T04:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/278635\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:27:17","slug":"commanders-lose-veteran-offensive-lineman-for-season-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/278635\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders lose veteran offensive lineman for season with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Washington Commanders<\/a> figure to have solid depth at offensive tackle in 2025 after trading for five-time Pro Bowler Laremy Tunsil and using a first-round pick on Josh Conerly Jr. That&#8217;s good news, as head coach Dan Quinn revealed on Sunday that veteran tackle Lucas Niang tore his ACL during Friday&#8217;s preseason loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New England Patriots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing I can say is that Lucas Niang did tear his ACL, so bummer on that part,&#8221; Quinn said Sunday before practice. &#8220;I wanted to give you that update. He had really done a nice job for us in a short time, so we&#8217;re really bummed for him. At offensive line to come in and learn it and being ready to go play, it sucks in this chapter, but there&#8217;s a lot more for him out there. But wanted to acknowledge that today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/commanders-sign-replacement-retired-offensive-210704217.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Niang, 26, signed with the Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niang, 26, signed with the Commanders <\/a>on July 30 after guard <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/commanders-veteran-offensive-lineman-abruptly-130743187.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nate Herbig surprisingly revealed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Herbig surprisingly revealed<\/a> he was retiring.<\/p>\n<p>A third-round pick by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2020 NFL draft, Niang did not play his rookie season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the next three years, he appeared in 33 games with nine starts. Niang spent the 2024 season on Kansas City&#8217;s practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Niang faced an uphill battle to make Washington&#8217;s 53-man roster. In addition to Tunsil and Conerly, Andrew Wylie is a lock to make the roster. Wylie can play tackle and guard. Also, there&#8217;s a good chance that Trent Scott will return for another season, too. The Commanders also have longtime veteran Bobby Hart in training camp.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/commanderswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/commanders\/2025\/08\/10\/commanders-lucas-niang-injury-news-acl\/85603815007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Commanders lose veteran OL to season-ending knee injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Commanders lose veteran OL to season-ending knee injury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders figure to have solid depth at offensive tackle in 2025 after trading for five-time Pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[12025,53311,427,7291,7,2917,110,594,49827,5861,249,6,4136,11222,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-278635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-andrew-wylie","9":"tag-bobby-hart","10":"tag-commanders","11":"tag-dan-quinn","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-josh-conerly-jr","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-laremy-tunsil","16":"tag-lucas-niang","17":"tag-nate-herbig","18":"tag-new-england-patriots","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-offensive-tackle","21":"tag-trent-scott","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-washington-commanders","24":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115008244703391301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278635","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=278635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}