In the lead up to this draft season, I compared the Commanders roster, left over from Ron Rivera, to those of conference championship contenders over the past five seasons. It should have come as little surprise that rosters of championship contenders are packed with above average to elite players, while teams that barely ever see the playoffs, like Dan Snyder’s Commanders, had very few.
There has been some grumbling over the supposed failure of the new regime’s first draft to adequately address the roster’s biggest needs. But the biggest difference between the roster that new GM Adam Peters inherited and that of the Conference Champion that he came from is the shortage of game-changing talents.