The Commanders’ first injury report ahead of Saturday’s game against the Eagles includes left tackle Laremy Tunsil.
Tunsil was listed as out of practice due to an oblique injury. Tunsil has started every game for Washington this season.
Defensive tackle Eddie Goldman (concussion), edge rusher Von Miller (rest), defensive tackle Daron Payne (rest), linebacker Bobby Wagner (knee, rest), and tight end Colson Yankoff (ankle) were also out of practice.
Tackle George Fant (knee), defensive end Drake Jackson (groin, knee), cornerback Jonathan Jones (rib), and running back Chris Rodriguez (groin) were listed as full participants. Quarterback Jayden Daniels (left elbow) was a limited participant, but he has been ruled out for the rest of the season.
The Commanders announced on Monday that quarterback Jayden Daniels will not play again this season due to the dislocated left elbow he suffered in a Week 9 loss to the Seahawks.
Daniels returned to play in Week 14, but aggravated the injury in Washington’s loss to the Vikings. Head coach Dan Quinn said at the time that Daniels could have returned to the game, but he further medical evaluation led to him being ruled out for Week 15 and he has not been cleared for contact. That led to the 4-10 Commanders deciding to let Daniels recover and start getting ready for 2026.
On Tuesday, Daniels said “adrenaline is a hell of a drug” when asked how he went from being available to not being cleared and reflected on a season that also saw him miss time due to hamstring and knee injuries.
“It’s super tough,” Daniels said, via WUSA. “I don’t want to miss games at all. I’ve been frustrated this whole season missing games. I want to be out there to help my teammates as much as possible. It’s just been a frustrating year, a disappointing year, but you learn from it and move forward.”
Daniels was the offensive rookie of the year in 2024 and the Commanders advanced to the NFC Championship Game, so this season was a step in the wrong direction across the board. They’ll hope for a rebound once Daniels is able to get back on the field next year.
Noah Brown’s 2025 season has come to an end.
The Commanders placed Brown on injured reserve on Tuesday after he suffered a rib injury during Sunday’s win over the Giants.
Brown was able to play just four games in 2025. He suffered an ankle injury early in the season that kept him sidelined until the Week 14 loss to the Vikings.
In those four games, he caught five passes for 83 yards.
As a corresponding move, the Commanders have signed receiver Chris Moore to the 53-man roster from the club’s practice squad.
Additionally, Washington designated cornerback Darius Rush practice squad injured, signed receiver River Cracraft to the practice squad, and signed tight end Gee Scott Jr. to the practice squad.
They can’t all be winners, can they?
As the NFL continues to make Christmas a pro football holiday, the trend has potential pitfalls. Including the very real possibility that the games to be played on December 25 will have little if any meaning to either or both of the teams involved.
Recent developments have made this season’s three-pack of games something far less enticing than gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
It will get started in nine days with Cowboys at Commanders. Both teams are more cooked than overdone roast beast.
Then comes Lions-Vikings. Detroit is scrambling to avoid missing the playoffs, which gives the game a little pop. The Vikings — who have won two in a row and are 6-8 — were eliminated on Sunday, when the Bears beat the Browns.
The day ends with the Broncos at the Chiefs. With the Chiefs eliminated. And with Gardner Minshew playing quarterback for the home team. Why would folks in Kansas City want to venture out on Christmas night to watch that one?
For in-home viewers who root for other teams, there’s a certain schadenfreude factor that will prompt those who had developed Chiefs fatigue to tune in and relish what should be a long night for the franchise that had appeared in three straight Super Bowls and five of the last six. Still, it will hardly be must-see streaming for Prime Video.
One factor is the calendar. With Labor Day landing on September 1 this year, the season started as early as it ever does. Which puts Christmas in Week 17. Which makes it harder to effectively predict in May the games that will matter in late December.
For that reason, don’t be surprised if the NFL eventually builds flexibility into the Christmas games, like it does for the late-season Saturday when five games are flagged as candidates for the three standalone spots.
Few teams are eliminated and thus irrelevant by Thanksgiving. More teams are and will be out of it by the time Christmas rolls around. If the NFL wants to maximize the audience for those games, it will have to either hit the bull’s-eye in May, or it needs to have the ability to move the dart.
Jayden Daniels will not play again in 2025.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the Commanders are shutting down Daniels as he continues to recover from aggravating his dislocated left elbow.
Rapoport notes that Daniels was re-evaluated on Monday and was not medically cleared. With the quarterback expected to be medically ruled out for Saturday’s game against Philadelphia and then a quick turnaround for a Christmas Day game against the Cowboys on a Thursday, the Commanders made the final decision to end Daniels’ second season on Monday.
The 2024 AP offensive rookie of the year, Daniels led the Commanders to the NFC Championship Game in his first season. But things did not go nearly as well for Daniels in Year 2, as knee, hamstring, and elbow injuries have all limited him to just seven games.
While Daniels was able to make seven starts in 2025, he played — at most — three games in a row.
Daniels finished 2025 having completed 60.6 percent of his passes for 1,262 yards with eight touchdowns and three interceptions. He rushed fur 278 yards with two touchdowns, averaging 4.8 yards per attempt.
Marcus Mariota is now set to start Washington’s last three games against Philadelphia, Dallas, and Philadelphia, respectively. He’s completed 62.0 percent of his passes this season for 1,600 yards with 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions while rushing for 298 yards with one TD.
