{"id":562182,"date":"2026-04-03T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:52:07","slug":"commanders-were-surprised-to-be-able-to-sign-both-odafe-oweh-and-klavon-chaisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/562182\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders were surprised to be able to sign both Odafe Oweh and K&#8217;Lavon Chaisson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commanders General Manager Adam Peters went into the offseason wanting to improve at defensive end. He did a better job than he thought he would.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders signed Odafe Oweh to a four-year, $100 million contract, and signed K\u2019Lavon Chaisson to a one-year, $12 million contract. They project as the Commanders\u2019 two starting defensive ends this season, and Peters wasn\u2019t expecting to get them both.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust really something we needed to address, and we did,\u201d Peters said. \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commanders.com\/news\/odafe-oweh-klavon-chaisson-commanders-pass-rush-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I was actually pretty surprised<\/a> we were able to get both of those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders also signed defensive end Charles Omenihu to a one-year, $4 million contract, picking up some depth behind the two new starters. Those contracts are a big investment, but Peters thinks the return will make the investment well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commanders General Manager Adam Peters went into the offseason wanting to improve at defensive end. He did a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-562182","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\/562182","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=562182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}