{"id":514538,"date":"2026-03-02T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:37:08","slug":"nfl-free-agency-commanders-to-release-cb-marshon-lattimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514538\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Free Agency: Commanders to release CB Marshon Lattimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Bay Packers might want to start looking at Washington Commanders players. The Commanders already released center Tyler Biadasz<\/a>, a consistently above-average player who Washington simply didn\u2019t want to pay at the negotiated rate for 2026. Now, the Commanders will reportedly also release cornerback Marshon Lattimore, per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lattimore is a former Pro Bowler, but the term \u201cformer Pro Bowler\u201d can mean a lot of things. There are plenty of \u201cformer Pro Bowl cornerbacks\u201d who are downright bad by the time they push 30 years old, and Lattimore will be 30 in May. On paper, though, it doesn\u2019t look like this is the case for Lattimore, who was the 11th pick of the 2017 draft.<\/p>\n

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Only 63 players played as many outside cornerback snaps as Lattimore last year, despite Lattimore missing 8 games due to an ACL tear. Among those 63 corners, Lattimore ranks 25th in yards allowed per coverage snap (maybe the only good stat for the position), per NFL Pro\u2019s data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the ACL throws a monkey wrench into the equation, but Lattimore still was plenty productive before his injury. The fact that he\u2019s going to become a cap casualty, which will save Washington $18.5 million in cap space, means that Lattimore won\u2019t be a \u201cqualifying free agent\u201d this offseason, too. What this means is that if the Packers sign him, he won\u2019t offset one of their potential compensatory draft picks \u2014 which they\u2019re expected to receive four of if Rasheed Walker, Romeo Doubs, Malik Willis and Quay Walker leave.<\/p>\n

Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur is close with Washington head coach Dan Quinn, who was LaFleur\u2019s head coach in Atlanta, so there\u2019s one Lattimore connection right there. The timing of the injury probably means that Lattimore won\u2019t be fully ready to play football until either September or early October, which makes this one tricky, but keep an eye on him as a potential option. General manager Brian Gutekunst has said that the Packers don\u2019t need wholesale changes at cornerback<\/a>, but that he does want to add competition to the room<\/a>. Adding Lattimore would certainly turn the heat up a bit on Carrington Valentine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers might want to start looking at Washington Commanders players. The Commanders already released center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1276,64,63,10291,6587,1243,59152,118705,593,9839,211070,26822,85,257350,1272],"class_list":{"0":"post-514538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-carrington-valentine","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-malik-willis","15":"tag-marshon-lattimore","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-quay-walker","18":"tag-rasheed-walker","19":"tag-romeo-doubs","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tyler-biadasz","22":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514538","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=514538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}