A new name has been added to the mix of potential buyers for the Commanders: Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, according to The Washington Post.
Fertitta has owned Houston’s NBA franchise for more than five years, having purchased the team for $2.2 billion in September 2017. Now, he has submitted a bid for Washington’s NFL team for approximately $5.5 billion, according to The Post.
As of now, the only other known bidder, according to ESPN, is 76ers and Devils owner Josh Harris. The amount of Harris’s bid has not been reported.
The Post’s Sunday report comes after a few tumultuous days regarding a potential Commanders bid from Amazon owner Jeff Bezos. After Bezos’s name reportedly was thrown out of consideration to buy the team in mid-January, The Post, which Bezos owns, reported Thursday that he had hired an investment firm to look into buying the NFL franchise.
However, on Saturday, a report from The Athletic claimed current Commanders owner Dan Snyder barred Bezos from placing a bid. The Post has yet to confirm this report.
Snyder and his wife, Tanya, reportedly hired Bank of America in early November with the hope of selling all or part of the team. That announcement came after a Dec. 8 report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform implicated Snyder in perpetuating “a toxic workplace culture by ignoring and downplaying sexual misconduct” within the organization.
