You picking up Chase Young 5th Year Option?

Looks like Ron is going to make him earn that big $$

@NickiJhabvala
The Commanders are not going to exercise DE Chase Young’s fifth-year option, per sources.

@NickiJhabvala
Worth noting that Ron Rivera has a track record of paying guys after career seasons. Look no further than Daron Payne. His fifth year was exercised, but the team didn’t extend him before last season. And then he had 11.5 sacks.

Young could still get paid.

Don't think we can rule out taking an edge rusher somewhere in the first few picks now.

I'll just go ahead and mark Chase Young down as being our franchise tag player in 2024.

But yeah, definitely should look at drafting an edge rusher, even if late in the draft just in case.

Hopefully this is good news for extending Sweat. Maybe they made their choice that Sweat is the better of the two. Otherwise, we are losing 1 of them next year. Can't franchise tag both of them. Also, would be pretty crazy to sign both of them to huge deals after this season.

Gotta say, this is very surprising.

The timing of this 'source' telling Nicki this now is interesting. Bet your life they're taking calls for Chase tomorrow night during round 1.

The timing of this 'source' telling Nicki this now is interesting. Bet your life they're taking calls for Chase tomorrow night during round 1.

Extend Sweat and trade Young might be the best option at this point. I'd love to be a fly on the wall internally, about the discussions on Chase.

Having both be FA's after this season could be untenable.

A possible 3rd round comp pick is not good enough for the No. 2 overall pick or a guy you traded back-up into the 1st to get. If we aren't keeping both, we need to get something good for them (or 1 of them).

The timing of this 'source' telling Nicki this now is interesting. Bet your life they're taking calls for Chase tomorrow night during round 1.

For sure, they'd be dumb not to

For sure, they'd be dumb not to

Would you trade a First for CY though?

Would you trade a First for CY though?

He's still the kind of talent where, if you believe a recovery will happen, he could be worth a 1 plus to you. There will also be teams that wouldn't touch him because of the unknown with the knee.

But it just takes one out of 31 teams and so they'll surely take calls.

I think trading him might be the right move if you can get the right deal.

I also think it's quite possible, and I'm just speculating here, that Ron doesn't think Chase is much of a team guy.

Talked about maturity a few years ago, talked about getting guys to buy in and not freelance, talked about how his recovery last year came down to him trusting the knee and it wasn't the doctors holding him back.

I'm not sure Ron thinks he can count on Chase to put the team first. I think Ron thinks that if Chase were considering the team he would have gotten on the field sooner last year.

Again just speculating but I can see a trade being an extremely real possibility tomorrow night.

I also think it's quite possible, and I'm just speculating here, that Ron doesn't think Chase is much of a team guy.

Talked about maturity a few years ago, talked about getting guys to buy in and not freelance, talked about how his recovery last year came down to him trusting the knee and it wasn't the doctors holding him back.

I'm not sure Ron thinks he can count on Chase to put the team first. I think Ron thinks that if Chase were considering the team he would have gotten on the field sooner last year.

Again just speculating but I can see a trade being an extremely real possibility tomorrow night.

I'd absolutely trade Chase for a 1st rounder right now, even pick 31, straight up. Just based on the questions and the position the team will be in at DE after the season if nothing is done. Then draft another guy to have on a rookie deal again (w/ any pick, not necessarily that one).

Don't think we can rule out taking an edge rusher somewhere in the first few picks now.

IMO we would need to anyway as it would be extremely difficult to keep both Sweat and Chase, so chances are we are going to need to replace one of them either way and getting someone drafted and ready for that time makes sense. They have looked at quite a few Edge players from what i've read.

Would you trade a First for CY though?

Someone might considering how young he still is, and if the medicals check out