The Washington Commanders have a new head coach, poaching Dan Quinn away from the Dallas Cowboys as Josh Harris made his first hire as owner in D.C.
The Commanders announced the Quinn hiring on Thursday morning, completing the 2024 NFL coaching cycle after the Baltimore Ravens hired Mike Macdonald on Wednesday night.
Interrupting @SeniorBowl coverage with breaking news: The #Commanders are hiring #Cowboys DC Dan Quinn as their new head coach. pic.twitter.com/lxJXu3tbyA
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 1, 2024
Washington hired Adam Peters as general manager on Jan. 12. The moves represent the first onfield steps to moving on from Dan Snyder and his toxic regime.
Quinn served as Dallas’ defensive coordinator for the past three seasons, and during that stint, the Cowboys ranked a combined fifth in points and seventh in yards. Under Quinn, the Cowboys led the NFL with 93 forced turnovers.
Quinn now gets a redo after previously having mixed results as Atlanta’s’ head coach from 2015 to 2020, taking the Falcons to the Super Bowl after the 2016 season, when they lost to the New England Patriots in overtime — after blowing a 28-3 lead.
He finished his Falcons stint 43-42 overall and 3-2 in the postseason.
The Commanders finished 4-13 in 2023 but will enter the offseason with momentum as they own the No. 2 pick in the 2024 draft and five picks in the top 100.
According to Over The Cap, they also have approximately $70 million in available cap space.