{"id":532855,"date":"2026-03-11T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532855\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:14:12","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-to-commanders-signing-chiefs-lb-leo-chenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532855\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts to Commanders signing Chiefs LB Leo Chenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being shut out in their attempts to land wide receiver Romeo Doubs in free agency, the Washington Commanders<\/a> pivoted to the other side of the ball, agreeing to terms with Kansas City<\/a> Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal.<\/p>\n

Washington’s deal with Chenal is reported to be for three years and worth $24.75 million. Considering some of the deals given to linebackers on Tuesday, this was a steal for the Commanders<\/a>. Chenal, a third-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft from Wisconsin, started 44 games for the Chiefs over four seasons. Chenal became a full-time starter in 2023 and was an integral part of two of Kansas City’s Super Bowl championship teams.<\/p>\n

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Linebacker was a massive need for the Commanders. Bobby Wagner is a free agent, and Washington wanted to get younger and faster across the defense, especially at linebacker. Chenal is big (6-foot-3, 250) and fast. He’s also versatile, proving throughout his NFL career that he can play inside, outside, off the ball, edge, etc.<\/p>\n

Chenal is young, too. At only 25, he can be a core player as Washington looks to rebuild a unit that has been one of the NFL’s worst for the past three years.<\/p>\n

When a player signs, you hear good and bad. With Chenal, almost everyone loves this move for the Commanders. Let’s look at some of the top reactions from analysts, fans and more.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Washington Commanders: NFL world reacts to Leo Chenal’s signing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being shut out in their attempts to land wide receiver Romeo Doubs in free agency, the Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,15429,3897,13521,196383,593,75222,26822,85,99646,1272],"class_list":["post-532855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bobby-wagner","tag-denver","tag-kansas-city","tag-leo-chenal","tag-nfl","tag-odafe-oweh","tag-romeo-doubs","tag-sports","tag-the-chiefs","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532855","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=532855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}