His return keeps the middle of the Commanders’ defense intact amid another year of potential upheaval. Wagner and Frankie Luvu worked well in tandem at linebacker in their first season together, but the Commanders still have 26 players headed for free agency.
“Bobby Wagner is somewhere getting better today,” Quinn said at the NFL combine last month in Indianapolis. “I don’t know where it is or what it looks like or how he’s doing it, but that’s the type of attitude that we want to chase. Constant improvement, digging for it hard. And if he can do it, then everybody else in the organization kind of follows suit into that space.