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Commanders set to hire Lions executive Brandon Sosna for prominent front office position

Sosna would likely take over managing Washington’s salary cap. Rob Rogers currently holds that position. Rogers’ title is the senior vice president of football administration. He has been with the Commanders since 2020, and former head coach Ron Rivera hired him. Rogers has spent 29 years in the NFL, all with the Carolina Panthers and Washington.

The Commanders have allowed multiple executives and scouts to leave by not renewing their contracts, but Rogers is still listed on Washington’s homepage.

Sosna, 31, is currently Detroit’s senior director of football administration. He joined the Lions in 2022 and “oversees the strategic planning and management of the salary cap as the team’s primary contract negotiator,” per Detroit’s official website.

Before Detroit, Sosna spent 2019-21 with the USC Trojans, where one of his duties was overseeing the football program’s day-to-day operations. Sosna also spent time with the University of Cincinnati and the Cleveland Browns. He was a football administration intern for the Browns in 2018 before being promoted to salary cap and contract analyst in 2018.

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Latest On Commanders’ Nickname, Logo

[T]he team recently posted birthday wishes to longtime linebacker London Fletcher on X, and in so doing, it used an image prominently featuring the Redskins’ helmet. As Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk observes, the team’s social media birthday wishes to Fletcher in prior years included images in which the Redskins’ logo was not visible.

As Florio opines in a separate piece, “there are no accidents,” and he believes matters like Quinn’s T-shirt are “trial balloons” to test the public response to the old name and logo (although the team had no official comment on the T-shirt). While it would be hard to imagine Harris deciding to bring back the “Redskins” name, it would be less difficult to see the team incorporate elements of the prior logo, especially in light of the merchandising sales it could generate.

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Why drafting a first-round QB is worse than a coin flip, unless you’re the Bears


The table above shows how frequently first-round quarterbacks signed multiyear extensions with their original teams over three decades, based on whether the quarterback was the first, second, third, fourth or fifth player at the position selected that year. The re-sign rate was 57 percent for the first quarterback selected (16 of 28) in a given year and 31 percent (15 of 49) for the others.

The data reflects 77 quarterbacks selected in the first round from 1993 (Drew Bledsoe, Rick Mirer) through 2022 (Kenny Pickett). This 30-draft period spans the birth of NFL free agency to the most recent class of quarterbacks eligible for contract extensions. It excludes Jordan Love, Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence, who have not yet signed long-term extensions but could still do so (the extension Love signed last spring was a placeholder buying time for him to succeed Aaron Rodgers; he’ll likely sign a true extension soon).

2. Jayden Daniels comps: 35 percent re-sign rate

The second quarterback in each class’ first round re-signed with his team eight times in 23 chances (35 percent). That’s a steep drop in re-sign rate from the first to the second quarterback, even with dubious extensions for Daniel Jones and Mark Sanchez propping up the numbers.

The rate was about the same when the second quarterback in a class was chosen No. 2 overall, as Daniels was by Washington (two of seven re-signed in that case, with one of the re-signings, Carson Wentz, becoming regrettable as his career trajectory suddenly tanked). Italics below identify the seven quarterbacks chosen second overall.

Re-signed (8): Daniel Jones, Patrick Mahomes, Carson Wentz, Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Donovan McNabb

Not re-signed (15): Zach Wilson, Sam Darnold, Marcus Mariota, Johnny Manziel, Robert Griffin III, Jake Locker, Tim Tebow, Brady Quinn, Matt Leinart, Byron Leftwich, Joey Harrington, Ryan Leaf, Kerry Collins, Trent Dilfer, Rick Mirer

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