The 2026 NFL scouting combine begins next week and for many of these prospects, we\u2019ll get to see for the first time their OFFICIAL measurements, and if we are fortunate enough, some testing numbers so we can verify what we have seen on film.<\/p>\n
With that, I wanted to give you my first mock offseason of 2026.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m sure this may change a bit, especially with the draft, after the combine and free agency, but I always like to go back to these and compare the results with what we actually end up doing.<\/p>\n
Starting Cap Space: $63-65MCuts:<\/p>\n
Marshon Lattimore: $18.5M savings<\/p>\n
Nick Allegretti (Post June 1): $6M savings<\/p>\n
Extensions:<\/p>\n
Laremy Tunsil: 3yrs\/$90M; $65M guaranteed<\/p>\n
2026 cap hit: $13M ($11M cap savings in 2026)<\/p>\n
Daron Payne: 2yrs\/$48M (void year added); $30M guaranteed<\/p>\n
2026 cap hit: $15M ($13M cap savings in 2026)<\/p>\n
Re-signing our own:<\/p>\n
Chris Paul: 3yrs\/$21M; $9.5M guaranteed<\/p>\n
Treylon Burks: 2yrs\/$6.5M; $3M guaranteed + incentives<\/p>\n
Drake Jackson: 1yr\/$2M + incentives<\/p>\n
Chris Rodriguez: 2yrs\/$4M<\/p>\n
2026 Free Agency (key signings):<\/p>\n
Estimated New Cap Space: $98-100M<\/p>\n
Estimated Effective Cap Space: $83-85M<\/p>\n
S \u2013 Bryan Cook (26): 4yrs\/$66M; $40M guaranteed<\/p>\n
WR \u2013 Romeo Doubs (26): 3yrs\/$50M; $35M guaranteed (void year added)<\/p>\n
CB \u2013 Riq Woolen (27): 3yrs\/$40m; $25M guaranteed<\/p>\n
EDGE \u2013 Boye Mafe (27): 3yrs\/$37M; $22M guaranteed<\/p>\n
LB \u2013 Nakobe Dean (25): 4yrs\/$38M; $23.5M guaranteed<\/p>\n
TE \u2013 Isaiah Likely (26): 3yrs\/$27M; $17M guaranteed<\/p>\n
DT \u2013 Logan Hall (26): 2yrs\/$17M; $10M guaranteed<\/p>\n
RB \u2013 Rachaad White (27): 2yrs\/$14M; $10M guaranteed<\/p>\n
*WR \u2013 Brandon Aiyuk (28): 1yr\/$8M; $8M guaranteed + incentives<\/p>\n
NFL Draft:Depth ChartOffense:<\/p>\n
QB: Jayden Daniels\/TBD<\/p>\n
RB: Rachaad White\/Bill Croskey-Merritt<\/p>\n
RB: Chris Rodriguez<\/p>\n
TE: Isaiah Likely\/Ben Sinnott<\/p>\n
TE: John Bates<\/p>\n
WR: Terry McLaurin\/Luke McCaffrey<\/p>\n
WR: Romeo Doubs\/Treylon Burks\/Elijah Sarratt<\/p>\n
WR: Brandon Aiyuk\/Jaylin Lane<\/p>\n
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LT: Laremy Tunsil<\/p>\n
LG: Chris Paul<\/p>\n
C: Tyler Biadasz\/Trey Zuhn<\/p>\n
RG: Sam Cosmi<\/p>\n
RT: Josh Conerly<\/p>\n
Swing OT: Brandon Coleman<\/p>\n
Defense:<\/p>\n
EDGE: Boye Mafe\/Drake Jackson<\/p>\n
DT: Daron Payne\/Jer\u2019Zhan Newton<\/p>\n
DT: Javon Kinlaw\/Logan Hall<\/p>\n
EDGE: Dorance Armstrong\/Javontae Jean-Baptiste<\/p>\n
SAM Hybrid: Arvell Reese\/Frankie Luvu<\/p>\n
MIKE: Nakobe Dean\/Kyle Louis<\/p>\n
WILL: Jordan Magee\/Kain Medrano<\/p>\n
CB: Trey Amos\/Car\u2019lin Vigers<\/p>\n
CB: Riq Woolen<\/p>\n
Slot: Mike Sainristil\/Quan Martin<\/p>\n
S: Bryan Cook\/Quan Martin<\/p>\n
S: Will Harris\/Tyler Owens<\/p>\n
Special Teams:<\/p>\n
K: Jake Moody<\/p>\n
P: Tress Way<\/p>\n
PR: Jaylin Lane<\/p>\n
KR: Luke McCaffrey\/Chris Rodriguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL scouting combine begins next week and for many of these prospects, we\u2019ll get to see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[14163,5305,7189,35570,1606,8212,427,13146,11201,7,4698,7370,2920,7188,594,40942,7185,6903,477,6,8564,9342,3268,3995,1083,11898,4050,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-768541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-boye-mafe","9":"tag-brandon-aiyuk","10":"tag-brandon-coleman","11":"tag-bryan-cook","12":"tag-chris-paul","13":"tag-chris-rodriguez","14":"tag-commanders","15":"tag-daron-payne","16":"tag-drake-jackson","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-isaiah-likely","19":"tag-jake-moody","20":"tag-jaylin-lane","21":"tag-john-bates","22":"tag-laremy-tunsil","23":"tag-logan-hall","24":"tag-marshon-lattimore","25":"tag-mccaffrey","26":"tag-nakobe-dean","27":"tag-nfl","28":"tag-nick-allegretti","29":"tag-rachaad-white","30":"tag-riq-woolen","31":"tag-romeo-doubs","32":"tag-sam-cosmi","33":"tag-tress-way","34":"tag-treylon-burks","35":"tag-washington","36":"tag-washington-commanders","37":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116113433258880593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768541","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=768541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}