{"id":924460,"date":"2026-06-21T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/924460\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:48:16","slug":"washington-commanders-urged-to-sign-star-receiver-before-2026-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/924460\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders urged to sign star receiver before 2026 NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a stellar season as a rookie in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/washington-commanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders<\/a> star quarterback Jayden Daniels hit a bit of a sophomore slump in his second season in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be looking to bounce back in 2026, and the Commanders could help him do that by providing him with as many weapons as possible at his disposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commanders urged to sign Tyreek Hill before 2026 NFL season\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, the Commanders have been urged to sign a veteran star wide receiver before the start of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49096789\/2026-nfl-offseason-final-moves-trades-signings-extensions-32-teams#ATL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent article for ESPN<\/a>, Aaron Schatz named one move that every team needs to make before the onset of the &#8217;26 season and signing Tyreek Hill was the move for Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Schatz:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The caveat here is &#8216;if healthy,&#8217; but the Commanders could use a solid No. 2 receiver and a field stretcher who is a step up from Dyami Brown. They are currently third in cap space, so the economics work for them. Jayden Daniels is a dynamic young quarterback who could get the ball out to Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, who is coming off of a devastating knee injury suffered in Week 4 last season, remains unsigned at this point in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>There are obviously questions and concerns about how he will bounce back from that injury, but he could be worth a flyer for a team like Washington, depending on the price tag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a stellar season as a rookie in 2024, Washington Commanders star quarterback Jayden Daniels hit a bit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,855,111,2480],"class_list":["post-924460","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-washingtoncommanders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116785584776678471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924460","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=924460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}