{"id":818826,"date":"2026-03-18T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:36:14","slug":"we-now-know-the-details-of-nick-allegrettis-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818826\/","title":{"rendered":"We now know the details of Nick Allegretti\u2019s new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, we learned that Nick Allegretti, whom some fans had thought to be a cut candidate heading into free agency, instead got a new 2-year contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to the extension, Allegretti had only the final year (2026) left on a 3-year deal he had signed in 2024:<\/p>\n

I confess that when I heard the news, I initially assumed that 2 years had been added to the only year left on his existing contract. That\u2019s not what happened. Basically, one year was added (2027), or looked at another way, his old contract that had only one year remaining was replaced by a new 2-year deal.<\/p>\n

To understand what the Commanders did here, we have to do a little bit of math.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Allegretti\u2019s new deal:<\/p>\n

There are a number of things to notice here:<\/p>\n

This was a pay cut for Allegretti dressed up to look like an extension<\/p>\n

To evaluate this fully, let\u2019s look at the amount of cash Allegretti would have received for 2026 under his original (2024) contract and compare it to what he will receive if he plays just one season under the new (2026) agreement:<\/p>\n

As you can see, if Allegretti is cut after the 2026 season, he will end up making $2m less than he would have if he\u2019d played out the final year of his existing contract, indicating that playing it out was not an option. In effect, the Commanders must have arm-twisted him into accepting a pay cut by threatening to release him.<\/p>\n

However, rather than announce it as a pay cut, as happened with Andrew Wylie a year earlier, this was dressed up as an extension or as a new 2-year deal.<\/p>\n

A triple win for the Commanders<\/p>\n

The reality is that this was a triple-win for the team. In return for letting Allegretti keep his job and tossing in a $2m guarantee, the Commanders saved $2m in cash this season, reduced the \u201826 cap hit by $3.3m, and secured an option on Allegretti\u2019s services for 2027 at a known cost of $3.585m in cash.<\/p>\n

A good day\u2019s work by the Washington front office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks ago, we learned that Nick Allegretti, whom some fans had thought to be a cut candidate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,855,111,4766,2480],"class_list":["post-818826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-commanders","tag-commanders","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-washington","tag-washington-commanders","tag-washington-commanders-salary-cap","tag-washingtoncommanders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116249505511747689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818826","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=818826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}