Washington Commanders NFL draft picks 2024: Full list of team's round-by-round selections

Here is a 2024 NFL draft pick-by-pick breakdown for the Washington Commanders:

Round 1 (No. 2 overall) — Jayden Daniels, QB, LSU: Make that two teams in a row opting for former Heisman winners tasked with settling long-festering quarterback problems. Daniels, 23, who won college football’s most prestigious award last season, projects as this draft’s top dual threat QB – comfortable with picking apart defenses from the pocket or breaking their backs with an 80-yard run. He’s been widely compared to Lamar Jackson, though is a far more advanced passer than the two-time league MVP was at this stage if not quite as electric an open-field runner.

The Commanders will have to do a better job protecting Daniels – and he’ll have to be more judicious about breaking the pocket in the NFL – given the cautionary tale of former Washington QB Robert Griffin III, who was never the same player after tearing up his knee and absorbing heavy contact throughout his 2012 rookie season. At 6-4, 210 pounds, Daniels has a slender frame, like RG3, and a tendency to put it in harm’s way while trying to pick up a few extra yards at the end of already profitable plays. It should help him to be teamed with experienced OC Kliff Kingsbury – he’s worked with the likes of Mahomes, Williams and Kyler Murray over the years – and playmakers like WRs Terry McLaurin and Jahan Dotson and RB Austin Ekeler. Daniels could be the player who exemplifies the reset of a franchise under new ownership and hoping to soon notch its first postseason win in nearly two decades. Draft tracker

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Round 2 (36) — Jer’Zhan Newton, OT, Illinois The Big Ten’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year, who’s 6-2 and 304 pounds, is strong, tough, twitchy and certainly disruptive enough to make an impact right away. Does his arrival signal Jonathan Allen or Daron Payne could be moving on? Draft tracker

Round 2 (50, from Saints through Eagles)

Round 2 (53, from Eagles)

Round 3 (67)

Round 3 (100, special compensatory selection from 49ers)

Round 5 (139)

Round 5 (152, from Seahawks)

Round 5 (161, from Buccaneers through Eagles)

Round 7 (222)

Washington Commanders’ recent top draft picks

• 2023 (No. 16 overall): Emmanuel Forbes, CB, Mississippi State
• 2022 (No. 16 overall): Jahan Dotson, WR, Penn State
• 2021 (No. 19 overall): Jamin Davis, LB, Kentucky
• 2020 (No. 2 overall): Chase Young, DE, Ohio State
• 2019 (No. 15 overall): Dwayne Haskins, QB, Ohio State

Previous drafts: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020

2024 NFL draft: Every team’s picks

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