{"id":467218,"date":"2026-02-14T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:28:07","slug":"deebo-samuels-contract-voids-hell-count-12m-against-commanders-cap-and-hit-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467218\/","title":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel&#8217;s contract voids, he&#8217;ll count $12M against Commanders&#8217; cap and hit free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Commanders traded for wide receiver Deebo Samuel last year, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/commanders-deebo-samuel-agree-to-reworked-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it was understood at the time<\/a> that he was headed for free agency in March of 2026. That day is fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel\u2019s contract has officially voided, leaving a $12.3 million cap hit on the Commanders\u2019 books for 2026. He\u2019ll become an unrestricted free agent on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an open question what kind of contract the 30-year-old Samuel can command in free agency. At times in his career he\u2019s been one of the best wide receivers in football (he was a first-team All-Pro in 2021), but he\u2019s coming off a rather uninspiring season in which he averaged a career-low 10.1 yards per catch.<\/p>\n<p>When the 49ers traded Samuel to the Commanders last year, San Francisco got only a fifth-round pick because the 49ers were eager to get Samuel\u2019s contract off their books. Now Samuel can find out how much every NFL team thinks he\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Commanders traded for wide receiver Deebo Samuel last year, it was understood at the time that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-467218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}