As Quinn collaborates with Peters for April’s draft, they will have to attend and see what the Chicago Bears determine to do with the No. 1 general decide. After the Bears traded Justin Fields to the Steelers, most indicators level to USC prospect Caleb Williams being the front-runner to be chosen No. 1 general. However what occurs after Chicago’s decide stays unknown.
Will it’s LSU QB Jayden Daniels or North Carolina’s Drake Maye?
Regardless that Washington must wait and see how the draft unfolds, Quinn says there’s nonetheless work to do on who the Commanders will choose in the event that they determine to make use of their decide.
“I nonetheless have a variety of work to do into that area,” he mentioned. “Sadly, Adam’s approach additional forward from going by it, however we actually dug in arduous on our personal staff, after which the free agent course of. And now as we’re getting finalized and on the draft facet of issues, we nonetheless have extra visits, individuals to come back in, it has been extra time. So, I would say we’re getting nearer, however to say we’re there but, not but.”
Peters, a first-year basic supervisor, heads into his first NFL draft after a busy month in March. Peters added QB Marcus Mariota, RB Austin Ekeler, TE Zach Ertz, LB Bobby Wagner and security Jeremy Chinn in free company.
With 2023 starter Sam Howell traded to Seattle, Mariota and Jake Fromm at present fill the QB room in Washington. Regardless that the Commanders maintain a premium decide at No. 2, Quinn says the telephone is ringing, and Peters is answering all of the calls if a staff desires to commerce up within the draft.
“Sure, I might say it is ringing, and since, such as you mentioned, of the expertise of the group this yr,” Quinn mentioned. “And so I might anticipate him fielding these calls because it goes by, and often it isn’t essentially later than No. 6 or 7, however these people who find themselves often within the high 4 or 5, there’s anyone that anyone has focused, and I believe it is largely like ‘Effectively, I’ve obtained to take a shot!’ Numerous occasions it is no, like ‘Thanks for calling’ however it’s a part of the method, and it’s important to do your due diligence to pay attention and to seek out out simply to ensure, like is there one thing that you simply simply could not refuse.
“I definitely walked previous it within the hallway after I was with the Cowboys, years in the past for a commerce that concerned Herschel Walker and plenty of draft picks and adjusted a variety of their group. So, I believe anyone in personnel with the abilities of Adam, they will pay attention, however there’s solely so many issues that you simply’d take into account and it’d higher be actually good.”