{"id":13928,"date":"2025-07-22T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13928\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:30:07","slug":"commanders-upgrade-pass-rush-in-2026-nfl-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13928\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders Upgrade Pass Rush in 2026 NFL Mock Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commanders Upgrade Pass Rush in 2026 NFL Mock Draft<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year, the Washington Commanders and general manager Adam Peters drafted a mix of offense and defense in the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

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With just five total picks in this year’s selection show, Peters added three offensive players and two defensive players.<\/p>\n

Second-round corner Trey Amos should help shore up the secondary, while sixth-round linebacker Kain Medrano might add some depth to the second level.<\/p>\n

But Washington lost its sack leader from last year, Dante Fowler, Jr. Fowler tallied 10.5 sacks in 2024, and has moved back to the Dallas Cowboys for 2025.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how the Commanders’ pass rush is affected by Fowler’s departure. The club added Javon Kinlaw and Bobby Wagner, along with a slew of possible depth pieces on defense, and that should help.<\/p>\n

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But looking ahead to 2026, PFSN believes <\/a>Washington could add some pass rush prowess in the first round of its way-too-early 2026 NFL Mock Draft.<\/p>\n

The draft order has been established using the PFSN Mock Draft Simulator<\/a>, which you can use to predict every round.<\/p>\n

ROUND 1, PICK 27 – Washington Commanders: Gabe Jacas, EDGE, Illinois<\/p>\n

“The Illinois Fighting Illini could be a strong contender in the race for the College Football Playoff in 2025,” PFSN wrote<\/a>. “The Champaign-based program achieved 10 wins for the first time since 2001 last season and aims to record back-to-back double-digit win seasons for the first time in school history. A significant factor in achieving those aims will be dynamic edge rusher Gabe Jacas, the star on an improving defense.<\/p>\n

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“The 6-3, 275-pound defender had eight sacks on 44 pressures in 2024, using his speed to power conversion, elusive first step, and pummeling hand usage to create leverage.”<\/p>\n

Related: Analyst Questions Commanders Defense Ahead of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Commanders’ Second-Year Wideout Tabbed for ‘Breakout Season’<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 20, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commanders Upgrade Pass Rush in 2026 NFL Mock Draft originally appeared on Athlon Sports. This year, the Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[15421,64,63,15429,3376,1234,15422,15424,15426,1411,15425,15428,15427,593,10028,15423,85,3053,1272],"class_list":["post-13928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adam-peters","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bobby-wagner","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dante-fowler","tag-defensive-players","tag-gabe-jacas","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-javon-kinlaw","tag-kain-medrano","tag-mock-draft","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-offense-and-defense","tag-sports","tag-trey-amos","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}