{"id":770755,"date":"2026-02-23T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770755\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:02:20","slug":"how-will-gm-adam-peters-approach-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770755\/","title":{"rendered":"How will GM Adam Peters approach free agency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 22, 2026, 4:47 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Perhaps Adam Peters will approach free agency as he did in 2024?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">You may recall that the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Washington Commanders<\/a>&#8216; new GM arrived and was busy releasing veterans, signing new ones, and making a draft-day trade to acquire an extra draft choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In that first off season for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" data-autotag=\"a4fb178e-5fd0-440a-8a7b-b87aea742850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Commanders<\/a>, Peters quickly released three starters from the 2023 team: Logan Thomas, Nick Gates and Charles Leno, Jr. Then Peters surprised many by letting Commanders go that he had no interest in re-signing such as RB Antonio Gibson, DE Casey Toohill, WR Curtis Samuel, QB Jacoby Brissett, DE James Smith-Williams, S Kam Curl, CB Kendall Fuller, G Saahdiq Charles and K Joey Slye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Looking at each of those, how many would you say Peters unquestionably missed on, and should have resigned them? I don&#8217;t know that I could say he &#8220;unquestionably&#8221; missed any of them. You could question whether Kam Curl should have been re-signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Next came a large volume of one-year contracts signed with veteran free agents. Only five contracts were three-year deals. That was wise by Peters. For instance, the Daron Payne deal now, where his dead cap hit this season is $28 million, yet he has played nothing close to that value. That was signed when Ron Rivera was the head coach\/general manager.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Of those five three-year deals, it would appear four of the five players are expected to still be present and starting in 2026: DE Dorance Armstrong, LB Frankie Luvu, C Tyler Biadasz and LS Tyler Ott. The only deal that has underperformed has been G Nick Allegretti. Two two-year deals were also completed as RB Austin Ekeler and S Jeremy Reaves re-signed for two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Consequently, with the Commanders not owning draft choices in the second or fourth rounds, don&#8217;t be surprised to see Peters busy again signing most players to a prove-it, one-year deal. Then look for him to sprinkle in a few more two- or three-year deals with ascending players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 22, 2026, 4:47 a.m. ET Perhaps Adam Peters will approach free agency as he did in 2024?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[95878,427,7,1070,6,95993,95994,95882,109476,109479,98536,96197,96064,109477,100469,103662,100468,109478,109480,95895,96200,109481,95897,100315,95883,96006,95881,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-770755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jr","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sstssportsnflcommanders","14":"tag-sstsncommanders","15":"tag-tagamerican-football","16":"tag-tagantonio-gibson","17":"tag-tagcharles-leno","18":"tag-tagcurtis-samuel","19":"tag-tagfrankie-luvu","20":"tag-tagjacoby-brissett","21":"tag-tagjames-smith-williams","22":"tag-tagjeremy-reaves","23":"tag-tagjoey-slye","24":"tag-tagkamren-curl","25":"tag-tagkendall-fuller","26":"tag-taglogan-thomas","27":"tag-tagnfl-hub","28":"tag-tagnick-allegretti","29":"tag-tagnick-gates","30":"tag-tagoverall-negative","31":"tag-tagron-rivera","32":"tag-tagsports-news","33":"tag-tagwashington-commanders","34":"tag-typestory","35":"tag-washington","36":"tag-washington-commanders","37":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770755","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=770755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}