Washington Commanders defensive tackle Daron Payne will “likely” head to injured reserve after suffering a “significant” foot injury during Friday’s practice, per Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo of NFL Network.<\/p>\n
Payne has played all nine of his NFL seasons with Washington, which selected the former Alabama star with the 13th overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft. <\/p>\n
He’s started six games this season and amassed 14 tackles (seven solo), five quarterback hits and one sack.<\/p>\n
Payne has only missed three career games (one in 2019, two in 2025), and one was due to a suspension<\/a> following an altercation with Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown last year. The other two absences were because of an ankle sprain (2019) and a back injury (2025).<\/p>\n So he’s been a beacon of durability and reliability and a stalwart on the defensive line for quite some time. <\/p>\n Ultimately, this is a devastating loss for Washington. Grant Paulsen of 106.7 The Fan offered more insight into the impact of the injury.<\/p>\n This has already been a difficult year on the injury front for Washington. Of note, wide receiver Terry McLaurin (torn patellar tendon) is out<\/a> for the year, as are linebacker Leo Chenal<\/a> (fractured neck). Left tackle Laremy Tunsil suffered a torn triceps in training camp and has been out all year<\/a>. Quarterback Jayden Daniels missed two-and-a-half games with a dislocated elbow. Now Payne would be out for at least four games if he’s placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n In part because of injuries, Washington is off to a 1-4-1 start. The Commanders will hope to get back on the winning track on Sunday evening when they host the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders defensive tackle Daron Payne will “likely” head to injured reserve after suffering a “significant” foot injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-947023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947023","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=947023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}