Mark July 15, 2025, as a landmark date for the Washington Commanders. Not because anything significant happened with the uniforms or the stadium or the roster. Mark it because the first headwinds of the Adam Peters-Dan Quinn administration blew from Laurel to Ashburn and across the NFL.
Maybe this Terry McLaurin situation will be nothing. In the week before the Commanders open training camp, it feels like something. McLaurin has set the standard at the team’s Ashburn headquarters since the day he walked in the building in 2019 — back when a standard so desperately needed to be set. He debuted in the final days of Jay Gruden, rode out his rookie season with Bill Callahan, found a way to excel amid the chaos of the Ron Rivera era and so often returned to the huddle wondering who his quarterback would be on a given play
This isn’t the player who seemed most likely to be the subject of Peters’s and Quinn’s first real headache, yet here we are. Advice to the Commanders’ general manager and coach: Take two Advil and make the headache go away. Take care of Terry.
