The Washington Commanders' preseason slate rolls on into Detroit this week, where the team will look for a second consecutive exhibition win. Head coach Dan Quinn will once again be without 2025 second-round cornerback Trey Amos, with his latest injury shrouded in mystery.
And there is growing concern about the lack of clarity.
Amos had been shelved all offseason with a fractured fibula but returned to practice a week ago and immediately injured his ankle. He's now set to miss a second preseason contest with no definitive timetable for a return.
Trey Amos' uncertain status is raising alarm for Commanders' insider
For a player whom Washington is counting on as a piece of its core nucleus moving forward, this is starting to raise some eyebrows.
Commanders fans and media insiders alike are starting to hit the panic button over Amos' unavailability. Nicki Jhablava of The Athletic discussed the topic during an interview on 106.7 The Fan, and the insider didn't do much to calm the narrative.
"(My concern) is pretty high at this point. He's had one practice since November 9, and the season is two and a half, three and a half weeks away. Even if he came back tomorrow, I'd still feel like, 'Is that enough time?' He wasn't involved in the offseason at all."
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Washington has operated all offseason under the expectation that Amos will be CB1 when the 2026 season starts. Now, that is in doubt.
Last year, when Amos was healthy, he looked the part of a shutdown corner who could take on top assignments. He didn't pick off any passes, but he broke up six of them and mostly held his own against high-level wide receivers.
Amos' development has since hit an unfortunate snag.
Trey Amos needs to pick things up quickly when he eventually returns
Not only has he been unavailable to practice, but, as Jhabvala points out, the Commanders have a new defensive scheme under Daronte Jones that he needs to learn.
He's falling behind. Even if Amos is healthy by September, he might not be as prepared or conditioned as most of his teammates.
That's a big problem. And Quinn had no real answers about the Ole Miss product's status during his media availability on Monday.
The Commanders are expecting big things from Amos. Still, injuries are always unpredictable in NFL life and can have lasting consequences for the trajectories of promising careers.
Nobody needs to tell the Commanders that after last season.
Amos is still young enough to shed the "injury-prone" label, but the label has put him in a much tougher situation entering his second season than anyone envisioned.
The longer Amos remains out of action, the more concerning this gets. The future of Washington's defensive backfield is at stake.
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