{"id":74039,"date":"2025-05-23T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/74039\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:17:09","slug":"commanders-to-sign-first-round-ot-josh-conerly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/74039\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders To Sign First-Round OT Josh Conerly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Commanders have agreed to terms with No. 29 pick Josh Conerly Jr. on a four-year, $15.68MM rookie deal, per NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As is customary for first-round picks, Conerly\u2019s first NFL contract will be fully-guaranteed with a fifth-year option for the 2029 season. It also includes a $8.044MM signing bonus, according to KPRC2\u2019s Aaron Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what Conerly\u2019s role will be in Washington this season. He almost exclusively played left tackle at Oregon, but the Commanders are set on the blind side after trading for Laremy Tunsil<\/a> this offseason. A switch to right tackle would require Conerly to beat out incumbent starter Andrew Wylie<\/a>, who started 29 games over the last two years but accepted a pay cut this offseason entering the last year of his contract. Further complicating the picture is 2024 third-rounder Brandon Coleman<\/a>, who started 12 games at LT as a rookie and could also look to compete at RT after the Tunsil trade, though he also lacks experience on the right side<\/p>\n

The Commanders are returning two of last year\u2019s interior O-line starters in left guard Nick Allegretti<\/a> and center Tyler Biadasz<\/a>, but Samuel Cosmi<\/a>\u2018s ACL tear will sideline him for most, if not all of the 2025 season. That opens up the starting RG job, but Conerly\u2019s lack of experience at guard (or even on the right side of the line) is a clear obstacle to winning the gig.<\/p>\n

Barring a positional switch as a rookie, Conerly will likely serve as a backup in 2025 as the Commanders figure out their long-term plan at tackle. Washington will likely move on from Wylie in 2026, at which point Conerly may be ready to start at RT. He could also be a long-term replacement for Tunsil, who only has two years remaining on his contract. A move to guard feels less likely, but could offer Conerly a starting job right away with the proper coaching and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commanders have agreed to terms with No. 29 pick Josh Conerly Jr. on a four-year, $15.68MM rookie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,2917,6,3571,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-74039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-josh-conerly-jr","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-transactions","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-commanders","15":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74039","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=74039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}