The Washington Commanders released quarterback Carson Wentz and defensive back Bobby McCain on Monday, saving nearly $29 million in salary cap space just weeks before the start of free agency and paving the way for the team’s younger talent.
As part of their trade for Wentz, the Commanders swapped 2022 second-round picks with the Colts and gave up a 2022 third-rounder and a 2023 third-rounder. Wentz had only one year of guaranteed money left on his contract, so Washington was able to make a clean split without taking on dead money — or money that would count against its cap — after one season.For the first time in his career, Wentz will be a free agent.
“I’m fired up about the opportunity to get to know the kid,” he said of Howell. “But more than anything, you always want to create competition. You want to make sure that we’re getting the very best out of the people who were in that particular position.”McCain’s exit is largely because of the emergence of Darrick Forrest, a 2021 fifth-round pick who proved a vital piece of the Commanders’ secondary in 2022 after he played mostly special teams as a rookie.
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