{"id":939142,"date":"2026-07-07T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/939142\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:45:13","slug":"former-mountaineer-rasul-douglas-returns-to-nfc-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/939142\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mountaineer Rasul Douglas Returns to NFC East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the right situation, Rasul Douglas found a new NFL team on Monday. The WVU product agreed to a one-year deal with the Washington Commanders, as first reported by ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas, who <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/former-mountaineer-rasul-douglas-finds-new-nfl-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spent the 2025 season with the Miami Dolphins<\/a>, will now return to the NFC East, where he started his career with the Philadelphia Eagles. His latest contract is worth up to $3.8 million, an increase from the $3 million he signed for one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas, 31, started all 13 games for Miami, registering 62 total tackles with 37 credited as solo, 13 pass deflections, two interceptions and one sack and forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p>In nine NFL seasons, Douglas has made 503 tackles, 393 on his own, picked off 21 passes and recorded three sacks, four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted by the Eagles in the third round in 2017, Douglas spent time with Philadelphia, the Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills and Dolphins before joining Washington. He was a member of the Eagles\u2019 Super Bowl LII winning team as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Add WV Sports Now as a Preferred Source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=wvsportsnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by clicking here.<\/a> You can also find us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wvsportsnow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and check us out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4mtB2t5Iq4IgEV5VX2dXGQ?view_as=subscriber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign-up<\/a> to get all of our articles delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas capped off his college career by playing his final two seasons at WVU from 2015-16, earning first team All-Big 12 honors as a senior.<\/p>\n<p>Find more <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/?s=rasul+douglas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coverage of Rasul Douglas<\/a> at WV Sports Now.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waiting for the right situation, Rasul Douglas found a new NFL team on Monday. The WVU product agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,14578,7,251,6,5653,855,111,2480,14580],"class_list":["post-939142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-commanders","tag-commanders","tag-feature","tag-football","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-nfl","tag-rasul-douglas","tag-washington","tag-washington-commanders","tag-washingtoncommanders","tag-wvu-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116879001073941809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939142","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=939142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}