{"id":590720,"date":"2026-04-07T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:48:09","slug":"former-commanders-draft-pick-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590720\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Commanders draft pick retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/commanderswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Washington Commanders&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Washington Commanders<\/a> draft pick has announced his retirement from the NFL. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Commanders&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Commanders<\/a>, then the Washington Football Team, used a seventh-round pick on wide receiver Dax Milne in the 2021 NFL Draft. After four NFL seasons, Milne called it a career on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Milne spent three seasons with the Commanders, from 2021-23, appearing in 28 games and making two starts. He caught 15 passes for 120 yards, including one touchdown and six first downs on 21 total targets. Milne&#8217;s numbers came in his first two seasons, as he was placed on season-ending injured reserve in September 2023, before Week 1, with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders released Milne on July 31, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Washington Commanders draft pick has announced his retirement from the NFL. The Commanders, then the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,288523,593,10028,85,1272],"class_list":{"0":"post-590720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dax-milne","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590720","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=590720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}