The Washington Commanders are off in Week 14. At 4-9, the Commanders have lost four games in a row and six of their last seven. Washington fired defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio after a 45-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, and we appear to be heading into the final four games of the Ron Rivera era.
The Commanders opened the season 2-0, but it’s been downhill ever since. While there were expectations that quarterback Sam Howell would have ups and downs in his first season as the starter, everyone expected Washington’s defense would keep them in games. Instead, Howell has shown more positives than negatives, but the defense — a consensus top-10 unit in 2022 — hasn’t been able to do anything right.
The offense has shown signs of progress under offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, but even that promise has tailed off recently. Washington has struggled along the offensive line, and the receivers have taken a step back in 2023.
It would be easy to name every Washington offensive lineman as its most disappointing player, but quite frankly, there wasn’t a lot expected from the group as a whole in 2023.
With the Commanders off in Week 14, we look at seven players who have been the most disappointing for a variety of reasons.