Hogs Haven
The Commanders have 90 healthy players comprising the oldest roster in the NFL and enter training camp with sky-high expectations
There have been a number of roster additions and subtractions since the last offseason roster depth chart I published in May.
Released:
Signed:
Added to NFI (non-football related injured reserve)
Players with NFI status — designated as such due to an injury or illness that occurred away from official team activity — are ineligible to practice until cleared but still count against a team’s 90-man roster limit. Rookies, whether drafted or not, who were injured prior to the draft are placed on NFI even if the injury is related to playing or training for college football or preparing for the draft. Players who remain on the NFI list after the league’s final cutdown day at the end of the preseason are required to miss a minimum of four games.
First, and most importantly, it should be clear at a glance that the graphic display below is not a true depth chart that shows the starter and backups at every position. In that kind of true depth chart, a single player may be listed at multiple positions (e.g., the starting left guard might also be the backup center and backup right guard; a cornerback might back up 3 positions in the secondary).
In my ‘depth chart’, each player is assigned a single position because the purpose of the chart is to provide an easy-to-digest look at the full offseason roster. While it is intended to give some indication of positional depth, it is primarily intended as an easy reference for the 92 men (90 currently healthy — RG Sam Cosmi is expected to open camp on PUP and UDFA RG Timothy McKay is on NFI) who comprise the Commanders at the moment. I publish these ‘depth charts’ only in the offseason for the primary purpose of helping myself and other fans keep up with the frequent changes to the fluid roster. They do not serve the same function as in-season depth charts.
Click here to access all the previously published offseason depth charts
Secondly, since each player can occupy only one position on the chart — even though that player might end up playing several positions in a game or a season — I have to resolve things by making choices. For example, three cornerbacks — Jonathan Jones, Mike Sainristil and Noah Igbinoghene — each have played both wide and slot corner in their NFL careers and are considered competent (or better) at both. I have listed Jones as the starting CB opposite Marshon Lattimore while Sainristil and Igbinoghene are shown as starting and backup slot corners respectively. It’s more than possible that these players may end up being used differently, but a choice had to be made and I made it....
