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In this week’s Reacts survey, we asked two questions, both focused on predicting on-field performance for Washington players who are not currently considered elite or who may not yet be on the Commanders roster.
I think the results from this survey question highlight just how unsure fans are about what the Commanders wide receiver group will look like in 2026.
Five different survey choices got double-digit shares of the votes from survey respondents — with “someone else” pulling in 20% of the vote.
Of the receivers currently on the roster that were listed in survey responses, Treylon Burks got the most votes at 27%. The veteran receiver appeared in 8 games for Washington in 2025, and, though he had only 10 receptions in those eight games, one of them was a spectacular one-handed catch for a touchdown in the Week 9 overtime loss at home against the Broncos.
Burks was shut out of the receiving stats in the two subsequent games in 2025, but he finished the season strong with 5 catches on 11 targets for 150 yards in the final 3 weeks of the season.
Still, Burks hasn’t played in more than 11 games or had more than 16 receptions in a season since his rookie year, and even then — in 2022, his career-best season — he played just 11 games, catching 33 passes for 444 yards and 1 TD. To revive his struggling NFL career, he’ll need to have his healthiest season as a pro, and surpass his best-ever NFL season-long production. More than a quarter of respondents in our survey seem to think he can do both.
It’s unusual for “someone else” to be the choice of 1/5th of voters in any survey, but there are two possible reasons why it polled so highly in this one.
First is that fact that I (rather stupidly) did not include rookie Antonio Williams as a choice in the survey. I think that most of the people who chose this answer were thinking of the former Clemson Tiger when answering Question 1.
As to the second possible thought process, anyone not thinking of Williams probably would have been thinking of a veteran player who might sign with the team before training camp. Since Brandon Aiyuk was listed as a choice in the survey, anyone thinking of a veteran not yet on the team either overlooked Aiyuk’s name in the survey or would have been thinking of players like Stefon Diggs or Deebo Samuel.
It’s a sign of the bizarre situation we find ourselves in that 12% of the respondents in our survey believe that a player on the 49ers roster will be the receptions leader among Commanders WRs not named McLaurin in 2026. The ongoing saga has kept NFL blogs and local talk radio...
