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[Ashman23]

Jahan Dotson WR

 

[brutus76]

He has good hands. Well done U might have got this one right

 

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[Constantgin]

 

[andana]

The Washington Commanders signed first-round draft pick Jahan Dotson to a standard four-year rookie contract, a person with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday. The deal is worth about $15.05 million and carries an approximate $2.74 million salary cap charge for this season.

Dotson was the draft’s 16th pick after the Commanders traded back from No. 11. The former Penn State standout was the fifth wideout off the board but was one of Washington’s top targets.
“He was one of the guys that our offensive coaches had rated a lot higher, so we spent a lot more time on him just because they felt confident about him in terms of a fit,” Coach Ron Rivera said after the draft. “We had a couple guys that we had as true fits, and he was one of the guys. ... He’s one of the guys that we had rated highly in the first round.”

 

[GreyCrow]

When you take money from members - thats ok

But take money from other owners its on like donkey kong

This THIS is what it will take for Snyder to be beside a con

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[andana]

Commanders acquire right to buy 200 acres in Va. for potential new stadium​

By Sam Fortier
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Laura Vozzella
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Antonio Olivo


washingtonpost.com


The Washington Commanders recently acquired the right to purchase land in Woodbridge, Va., as a potential site for its new stadium, state Sen. Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax) said he was told Monday by a lobbyist for the team.

Earlier, a person familiar with the team’s plans said the Commanders had actually purchased the land. But Surovell, whose district includes the potential site in Prince William, said one of the team’s Richmond-based lobbyists called him Monday after ESPN broke news of a deal and told him the team had not yet bought the land in Woodbridge, near Potomac Mills. The team has an option-to-purchase agreement to buy it, Surovell said.
A person familiar with the team’s venue plans said the deal was an option to purchase about 200 acres of land for about $100 million.

If the Commanders build a stadium in Woodbridge, it would be about 23 miles from the U.S. Capitol building. This would be nearly double the 11-mile distance from the U.S. Capitol to the team’s current stadium, FedEx Field in Landover, Md., and the third-farthest distance from a city center to a stadium in the National Football League behind San Francisco (42 miles) and New England (28).



The Commanders’ agreement, while a signal that the franchise is serious about Woodbridge, doesn’t mean the move is a done deal. The team’s stadium search has seemingly narrowed to five sites — Woodbridge; near Potomac Shores Golf Club in Dumfries, Va.; a quarry near Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va.; RFK Stadium in Washington; and a site near FedEx Field — and the deal in Virginia could ultimately be a negotiating tactic.

The Commanders have been playing at FedEx Field since 1997 but have been shopping for a new stadium option for several years. The team is obligated to play in Landover until at least 2027.
The team’s stadium search figures to be a topic of conversation moving forward. It led a Monday morning panel of local sports executives hosted by the Greater Washington Board of Trade.
“Jason, are we ready to say where the new location of the stadium —” began moderator Greg Wallig, the managing principal of Grant Thornton’s metropolitan D.C. and Arlington office.
“That’s where we’re going to start?” Wright said with a laugh, before demurring.

 

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Don Warren, a former star tight end for Washington and the current senior pro scout for the Commanders, is set to retire this week, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The move had been expected internally — Warren informed Coach Ron Rivera of his decision months ago — but it is unclear how the team plans to fill his role in the personnel department.

Warren’s retirement, first reported by Neil Stratton of InsidetheLeague.com, ends his tenure with the franchise after 21 seasons, including his entire 14-year playing career from 1979 to 1992.
Drafted in the fourth round (103rd overall) in 1979 out of San Diego State, Warren was an original member of Washington’s famed “Hogs” offensive line and a starter in four Super Bowls, helping the franchise win three of them. In 2002, he was named one of Washington’s 70 greatest players.

 

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ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reports that the Commanders have "intensified" their efforts to get a long-term deal done with WR Terry McLaurin.​

"He sat out minicamp. That sort of sparked more talks. They've sort of been upping their proposals. ... Nothing imminent yet, but this could get done even this week. Definitely before training camp is Washington's plan," Fowler added. McLaurin's holdout is one of the major stories of the summer, but everything the Commanders have put out publicly would lead us to believe that they very much want a deal done. Then again, we would have said the same thing about A.J. Brown before he was traded.

 

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Commanders.com's Zach Selby reports rookie WR Jahan Dotson has been "electric" in offseason practices.​

Dotson, the team's 16th overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, has drawn universal praise from Washington coaches and teammates this offseason, showing off "the traits that enticed Washington to draft him -- specifically his route-running and hands," Selby said. "He's awesome," Carson Wentz said. "He's a quiet kid, young kid, but he's a hard worker. He's smart, he's instinctual. He catches the football as natural as anybody I've been around, just how natural he plucks it out of the air." Dotson was highly productive in his final two years at Penn State, producing a 38 percent yardage share and 47 percent touchdown share in 2020 and a 36 percent yardage share and 50 percent touchdown share in 2021. Dotson is in line to start opposite Terry McLaurin and could serve as Wentz's No. 2 target with Logan Thomas still recovering from a major 2021 knee injury. Like McLaurin, Dotson is known to play much bigger than he is (5'11" and 177 pounds).

 

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An employee of Washington’s NFL team accused owner Daniel Snyder of sexually harassing and assaulting her in April 2009, three months before the team agreed to pay the woman $1.6 million as part of a confidential settlement, according to legal correspondence obtained by The Washington Post.

The woman accused Snyder of asking her for sex, groping her and attempting to remove her clothes, according to a letter sent by an attorney for the team to the woman’s lawyer in 2009. The woman alleged the assault occurred in a private, partitioned area at the back of one of the team’s private planes during a return flight from a work trip to Las Vegas.

Snyder denied the woman’s allegations, the letter states, and a team investigation accused her of fabricating her claims as part of an extortion attempt. But Snyder and the team eventually agreed to pay her a seven-figure sum as part of a settlement in which she agreed not to sue or publicly disclose her allegations.

The existence of a $1.6 million settlement was first reported by The Post in 2020. Details of her allegations have not been previously reported. They emerge as the NFL investigates a separate accusation of sexual harassment against Snyder and as members of Congress press the team and the NFL for information about the league’s year-long investigation of sexual harassment at the franchise, which concluded in 2021 with no public report or investigative findings.
Snyder, through his attorneys, declined an interview request, and his attorneys declined to comment. Snyder called the woman’s claims “meritless” in a court filing in 2020, saying the team only settled at the request of an insurance company. His accuser and her attorney, Brendan Sullivan, declined to comment. The Post typically does not name alleged victims of sexual assault without their consent.

The letter obtained by The Post was written by Howard Shapiro, an attorney at WilmerHale law firm, which had assisted in investigating the woman’s allegations. In his letter, written in response to the woman’s legal threats, Shapiro argued forcefully that her claims were “knowingly false,” made numerous allegations in attempts to undermine her credibility and said Snyder and the team would “seek damages” from her. Shapiro and WilmerHale did not respond to requests for comment.

The letter makes no mention of NFL involvement in the team investigation. The league’s personal conduct policy in 2009 required investigations of sexual assault allegations to be overseen by the league office, with Commissioner Roger Goodell determining any discipline. The team’s investigation in 2009, according to the letter, was overseen by then-general counsel David Donovan, who reported to Snyder.
The NFL and Donovan declined to comment.
In concluding the woman fabricated the assault, the letter says, Donovan cited the plane’s tight configuration and quiet engine, as well as interviews with passengers who said they didn’t notice signs of an assault or distress during the flight.

He also accused her of lying during the investigation, the letter states, by claiming she maintained an “impeccable personal and professional reputation.” To undermine that claim, Donovan cited allegations about the woman’s personal conduct, including that she wore revealing clothing and flirted with other men on the trip to Las Vegas.

The Post described the team investigation, as summarized in the letter, to three experts in sexual assault investigations, who said the team may have been justified in concluding that the woman’s claim was unsubstantiated. But these experts said the evidence cited in the letter does not prove the woman fabricated her claims, and they criticized the inclusion of potentially damaging allegations about the woman’s personal life, regardless of Donovan’s rationale.

“This is exactly the type of stuff we’ve worked hard since the 1970s to abolish from how sex crimes are investigated,” said Joanne Archambault, a retired sergeant with the San Diego Police Department who oversaw sex crimes investigations and the founder of End Violence Against Women International.

D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson, who led the NFL’s investigation of Washington’s workplace, interviewed Snyder’s 2009 accuser in 2020, The Post previously reported. But she did so amid what she later described as efforts by Snyder’s lawyers to “silence” the woman, including by offering her more money to not speak with the NFL investigator. An attorney for Snyder has denied these allegations.

On Wednesday, Goodell is scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee to discuss the NFL’s handling of its investigation of Washington’s workplace culture. Snyder declined a request to appear at the same hearing, saying he had a team-related business meeting in another country the same day.

 

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Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder has “refused to accept service” of a subpoena by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the committee said Monday.
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), the committee’s chairwoman, announced during Wednesday’s Capitol Hill hearing on the Commanders’ workplace that she would issue the subpoena in an effort to compel Snyder to testify via a deposition this week.

“Mr. Snyder has so far refused to accept service of the Committee’s subpoena,” a committee spokesperson said in a statement Monday. “While the Committee has been, and remains, willing to consider reasonable accommodations requested by witnesses, we will not tolerate attempts to evade service of a duly authorized subpoena or seek special treatment not afforded to other witnesses who testified in this matter.”

“Come January, if Republicans take back the House, Oversight Republicans have no intention of continuing an investigation into the Washington Commanders and will return the Committee to its primary mission of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government,” Austin Hacker, a spokesman for committee Republicans, said in a statement last week.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Ryan Kerrigan retires after 11 seasons with the Redskins - Football Team - Commanders

 

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[GreyCrow]

But are they wrong?

 

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[Exe Gesis]

Commanders claimed TE Kendall Blanton off waivers from the Rams.​

Blanton started in the Super Bowl in February, and nearly seven months later is looking to settle as solid depth on the Commanders. With Logan Thomas still on PUP and three rookies on the current depth chart, two of whom weren't drafted, it seems plausible that Blanton can make the Commanders 53-man roster.
SOURCE: Aaron Wilson on Twitter
Aug 21, 2022, 4:48 PM ET

 

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[A11dAtP0w3R]

ESPN's John Keim writes that Brian Robinson "appears to have supplanted" Antonio Gibson as the Commanders "main runner."​

It's possible that Gibson holds on to enough of this backfield to make everyone in it a hard start in fantasy, but Keim notes that Robinson is "consistent and always gets positive yards," which are words that presumably the coaching staff would not put on Gibson. This remains a tough backfield to handicap, but if Gibson continues to fall out of favor with the coaching staff, it would make sense for more of the workload to head towards Robinson.

ESPN's John Keim writes that the "expectation" is that TE Logan Thomas (ACL) will "return for Week 2 at the latest."​

Thomas was activated from the PUP list early last week and appears to have done enough to be questionable for Week 1. The Commanders have a lot of players who have been worthy fantasy options at their positions in the past, not to mention first-rounder Jahan Dotson, so it's hard to understand entirely where the targets will go outside of Terry McLaurin. It's possible that Thomas could shape up as a TE1, but it probably merits a wait-and-see approach at this point.

 

[Constantgin]

 

[Exe Gesis]