"When Adam Peters took over as the Commanders' general manager prior to the 2024 season, he inherited a team at the very beginning of a rebuild. Washington had six top-100 picks in its first draft, including the No. 2 overall selection. The front-office leader also benefited from a metric ton of salary cap space. The financial resources were largely used on aging veteran free agents who could help change the culture, and they did their job."
""The reason you're in the spot you're in right now, it's because you had six top 100 picks in your first draft and you maybe only hit on one of them. That's how you end up in a spot where you go from the NFC Championship game with an older roster, to now, that old roster that you brought back got injured and you had no one to fill in.""
Adam Peters became general manager prior to the 2024 season and inherited a team at the start of a rebuild with six top-100 picks and significant salary-cap space. The team used financial resources on aging veteran free agents to change culture, which had some success. The roster lacked youth, and injuries to the older core exposed a lack of ready young replacements during Dan Quinn's second season. After Year 2 of the 2024 draft class the group appears unimpressive. Criticism centers on hitting on only one of the six top-100 picks and on shortcomings in draft strategy and player development.
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