Tuesday, the Washington Commanders made one expected move and signed a local college project.
As expected, the Commanders, after releasing kicker Cade York, officially signed kicker Austin Seibert to the active roster.
Tress Way will love this move, as Seibert and Way both played for the Oklahoma Sooners. Seibert scored 499 points in his college career, an NCAA record at the time. The Browns used a fifth-round pick on Seibert in the 2019 draft, while Way went undrafted and signed with Washington after being released by the Bears in 2014.
York missed both field goal attempts in a Week 1 road loss to the Tampa Bay Bucs. In addition, York also erred, sending a kickoff out of bounds. He had come to the Commanders via a conditional draft pick if he performed well enough to be on the Commanders roster for two games. Thus, Adam Peters made the move, releasing York on Monday, retaining the draft selection.
Astute Commanders fans will recall Seibert kicking for the Jets in this season’s preseason opener. He has played in 31 games in five NFL seasons, making 80.4% of 56 field goal attempts and 90.3% of his extra points.
“I think it just really goes to show we have really high standards,” head coach Dan Quinn said during his Monday press conference. “That’s kind of where we’re at to say, ‘Hey, we’re knocking back off of this’…not one time to keep attacking and finding ways to go get better.”
Seibert has already been around the NFL block a couple of times, kicking for the Browns (2019-20), Bengals (2020), Lions (2021-22) and the Jets (2023). Here are his complete NFL stats.
Tuesday, the Commanders also added rookie offensive tackle Anim Dankwah to the practice squad. The 6-foot-8, 353-pound tackle was a First-Team All-MEAC tackle while playing for Howard University. Initially, Dankwah was an undrafted free agent of the Philadelphia Eagles.
