The Commanders added tackle Laremy Tunsil in a trade with the Texans. The Commanders have now used their first-round pick on another tackle.
Oregon’s Josh Conerly Jr. becomes the 29th pick, and another player who can help protect franchise quarterback Jayden Daniels.
Conerly was on the wrong end of a Senior Bowl practice rep, when Conerly was driven into the ground by Marshall defensive end Mike Green.
Conerly got the last laugh. He’s been drafted, and Green is still on the board.
Former NFL linebacker Steve Kiner died Thursday, the National Football Foundation announced. Kiner was 77.
Kiner played at the University of Tennessee from 1967-69, earning consensus All-America honors in 1968 and unanimous All-America honors in 1969. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
Kiner appeared in the 1970 Senior Bowl, and the Cowboys selected him in the third round of the 1970 draft. He played nine NFL seasons with Dallas, New England and Houston.
He appeared in 114 games but only 14 of those came with the Cowboys despite his special teams play as a rookie. Kiner, who didn’t start any games as a rookie, was angered when Chuck Howley came out of retirement in 1971, relegating Kiner to a backup role for another season.
The Cowboys traded him to the Patriots for a fourth-round pick.
The Patriots traded him to the Dolphins in 1972, and the Dolphins cut him before training camp ended. Washington claimed him for their taxi squad, but he did not see any game action.
The Patriots claimed him off waivers in 1973 but traded him to the Oilers in 1974 for a ninth-round draft choice.
His last season was 1978.
In 1994, Kiner earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He later established a mental health therapy practice in Carrollton, Georgia.
Born on June 12, 1947, in Sandstone, Minnesota, Kiner was reared in Tampa, Florida, and attended Hillsborough High School.
The Eagles are declining the fifth-year option on wide receiver Jahan Dotson’s contract for 2026, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports.
The move is not a surprise given Dotson’s lack of production last season in his first season with the Eagles.
The team’s No. 3 receiver, who had 19 catches for 216 yards in 2024, would have received a fully guaranteed $16.8 million.
He now is scheduled for free agency in 2026.
The Eagles acquired Dotson and a 2025 fifth-round pick from the Commanders for a 2025 third-round pick and two 2025 seventh-round picks. Washington used the third-rounder and one of the seventh-rounders in the trade with the Texans to acquire left tackle Laremy Tunsil this offseason.
Dotson made three catches for 53 yards and a touchdown in four postseason games for the Eagles in their championship run.
Commanders General Manager Adam Peters says he’s open for business on trades, including with the three other teams in the NFC East.
Despite a perception in some circles that a trade with a division rival is risky because it can give an opponent a player who might beat you in the future, Peters said he’s be willing to trade with the Eagles, Cowboys or Giants because he approaches any trade by looking at whether it benefits the Commanders. What the other team might do with a draft pick the Commanders send them isn’t Peters’ concern.
“I don’t personally believe in being scared about trading with a team within the division,” Peters said. “If you think the trade’s a good value for you . . . then definitely consider it.”
Peters said he’d like to add picks and is open to trading back, which could mean moving down from the 29th overall pick in a trade with the Eagles at No. 32 overall in the first round, or the Giants at No. 34 overall in the second round. If that option presents itself, Peters wouldn’t hesitate to make a move that he thinks can improve his roster, even knowing that the Eagles or Giants would be doing it because they think it would improve their roster.
The Dolphins have a new No. 2 quarterback. And he’ll be wearing a new number in Miami.
Zach Wilson’s number will be 0.
He’s the second quarterback to wear the number. Marcus Mariota picked it last year in Washington, the second season in which 0 became a jersey option. Mariota picked it as a “reminder” that "[p]eople don’t think I can do it anymore.”
Wilson inevitably will be asked about his decision to don the only non-positive number on the menu of options. Until, that is, the NFL comes to its senses and embraces a return of 00, worn in the past by players like center Jim Otto and receiver Ken Burrough and halfback/defensive back Steve Bagarus.
Whatever the number, the real question is whether Wilson become the third quarterback since 2013 who busted with the Jets before thriving elsewhere, whether in Miami or his next destination.
