{"id":859678,"date":"2026-04-07T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:01:25","slug":"washington-commanders-tied-to-speed-freak-with-no-7-pick-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859678\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders Tied to Speed Freak with No. 7 Pick in NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/washington-commanders\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"56948\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders<\/a> can\u2019t run from the fact that they dropped the ball last season. While injuries played a major factor, the players who were healthy didn\u2019t live up to the standard set in 2024, when Washington reached the NFC Conference Championship. <\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the Commanders\u2019 ugly season set them up to land a blue-chip prospect with the seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft. In roughly two weeks, the Commanders will be adding a potential star talent to the roster. So, who could the Commanders add?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-nfl-draft-big-board-update-mansoor-delane-cracks-top-10-peter-woods-tumbles-as-michael-triggs-stock-craters\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-nfl-draft-big-board-update-mansoor-delane-cracks-top-10-peter-woods-tumbles-as-michael-triggs-stock-craters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essentially Sports\u2019 NFL insider Tony Pauline<\/a> used his intel to predict what the Commanders might do with their first-round pick. While doing so, he said LSU\u2019s cornerback Mansoor Delane \u201ccould end up being drafted as early as the seventh pick.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Though, Pauline also cautioned that Delane could be a target of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/kansas-city-chiefs\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, who hold the ninth overall pick in the first round. Of course, if Delane is truly the Commanders\u2019 top target, the Chiefs would have to leap ahead of Washington, but Kansas City also has the 29th overall pick to use as ammo. <\/p>\n<p>Delane is viewed as the best cornerback prospect in the draft class, and a status he cemented after clocking a blistering 4.38-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine. He\u2019s viewed as a likely top-15 pick, so Washington selecting him seventh could certainly be in play, as Pauline hinted at. <\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nfl\/washington-commanders-urged-to-target-all-pro-defender\" type=\"post\" id=\"1409432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders Urged to Target All-Pro Defender<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775595685_142_cdc369fe6a9c435ab1a9344f358409a43c884a12b775d8a8492a08641e9e201e.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tDedicated  NFL  copywriter\/editor.  My  work  has  been  found  on  Sportsnaut,  Sports  Illustrated,  Sporting  News,  MSN,  Yahoo,  and  Minnesota  Sports  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/andrewbr2020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Buller-Russ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders can\u2019t run from the fact that they dropped the ball last season. While injuries played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-859678","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-nfl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-commanders","13":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859678","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=859678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}