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Commanders Roundtable
ESPN ranked [Laremy Tunsil] the 24th best player during the 2025 NFL season, along with the second-best offensive tackle behind Denver’s star and first-team All Pro Garett Bolles.
Tunsil…arrived in Washington [already] viewed as one of the best tackles across the NFL, and [during] his first season protecting what proved to be a rotating starting quarterback room, cemented that [reputation], grading as the third-best pass blocker per PFF. Tunsil allowed just two hits and sacks in nearly 500 snaps during the 2025 season, tied with Texans tackle Tytus Howard as the fourth-highest graded tackle in efficiency across the league.
[O]ne of the several questions this offseason is whether the Commanders work out a contract extension with the veteran tackle entering the final year of his three year, $75 million deal that was agreed to during his time with the Houston Texans.
General manager Adam Peters expressed optimism about an extension after noting the two sides were in “constant communication” with Tunsil self represented.
“He has a team around him that we have constant communication with and have throughout the year. So I think what I can say is we definitely want to get something done with them sooner rather than later,” Peters said in the end of season press conference.
“I want to play for [Dan Quinn] as long as I can. He’s become one of my favorite coaches that I had in the league. It’s fun to follow a guy like that,” Tunsil said in December. “As he leads, it’s not like a hard-ass or like cussing players out or anything, it’s more of just like teaching, you know, talking, letting you be free and giving you the freedom to like to be a professional.”
A to Z Sports
The Commanders should not hire Teryl Austin
Austin does have a lot of experience, which I’m sure Quinn loves, but it’s a move that wouldn’t move the needle, and the Commanders have a drastically worse roster on defense than the Steelers. I reached out to A to Z Sports Pittsburgh’s beat writer, Rob Gregson, to get his thoughts on Austin, and he agrees that it wouldn’t be a good move to make.
“The Pittsburgh Steelers had a lot of good players during Teryl Austin’s tenure as defensive coordinator. As a matter of fact, they had potential Hall of Famers in T.J. Watt and Cam Heyward, with tons of Pro Bowlers and All-Pros mixed in. Yet every year, there were questions. Blown assignments, bad communication, and just poor execution. It feels like there were yearly questions when it came to the run defense, and for as long as Austin was there, the team could never cover tight ends. It felt like whatever improvements came from that unit...
