{"id":807170,"date":"2026-03-11T23:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:05:42","slug":"washington-commanders-free-agency-rumors-tracker-welcome-to-the-2026-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807170\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders Free Agency Rumors Tracker: Welcome to the 2026 NFL Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/nfl-makes-significant-change-to-legal-tampering-period-that-will-have-huge-impact-on-free-agency-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">legal tampering period<\/a> started on Monday at noon, and continues concluded at 4 p.m. ET today. The new league year has officially started and the deals that have been agreed to during this negotiating window can now be finalized. The Washington Commanders have agreed to terms with seven pending free agents from other teams, along with signing ten of their own players who were set to hit free agency. Six of the seven players have been on defense, and they finally added a weapon for Jayden Daniels in TE Chig Okonkwo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The new league year starts today at 4 p.m. ET. Washington currently has the most available cap space in the NFL(<a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$76.4 million<\/a>), but only 63 players under contract to fill a 90-man roster. They will need to continue signing players at various salary\/skill levels, along with their six draft picks for April\u2019s draft. How many players does Washington need to sign today to make the first wave of free agency a success?<\/p>\n<p>Commanders Pending Free Agents<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">TE Tyree Jackson &#8211; Not tendered, UFA<\/p>\n<p>Commanders Signed by Another Team<\/p>\n<p>Commanders News and Rumors:<\/p>\n<p>Hogs Haven Media Information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL\u2019s legal tampering period started on Monday at noon, and continues concluded at 4 p.m. ET today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[107294,7,6,4910,6220],"class_list":{"0":"post-807170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-washington-commanders-free-agency","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-free-agents","12":"tag-washington-commanders-free-agency"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116213050469122683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807170","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=807170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}