Free Agency Report Card: Commanders' Nick Allegretti Make The Grade?
New Washington Commanders offensive lineman Nick Allegretti is a three-time Super Bowl champion and is joining his new squad looking for nothing more than an opportunity to earn a full-time starting job in the NFL.
Allegretti has 10 more career starts than he has Super Bowl rings right now, but if his time with the Commanders goes well he'll be able to put much more space between those two numbers beginning this year.
Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Kansas City Chiefs guard Nick Allegretti (73) warms up before Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium.
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He's also got five career postseason starts and most famously finished the Kansas City Chiefs' latest championship run after tearing his UCL, a sign of toughness that may have helped inspire Washington to give him the three-year deal he signed at the beginning of the new league year.
The same deal Over The Cap is grading out at an F.
"This signing came completely out of left field," says OTC. "Allegretti has started just 13 games in five years and as a free agent last season wound up returning to KC on a one year, $2.6 million qualifying contract. He's a former 7th round pick who has barely seen the field in the last three years. How that winds up with $9 million guaranteed is a mystery."
Not exactly the highest praise for one of general manager Adam Peters' several new additions to the roster he took over in January, but overall observers are pleased with the remodeling that has happened in less than three months.
OTC may not understand the move, but former Chiefs teammate tight end Travis Kelce had high praise for the new Commanders lineman on his New Heights podcast.
“You can’t have everything go your way all the time. The Chiefs lost one of my favorite [expletive] teammates of all time,” Kelce said of Allegretti. “The guy who tears his UCL and plays the rest of the Super Bowl...He’s going to team back up with another of my favorite teammates of all time, (Washington offensive tackle) Andrew Wylie. I love those dudes, man. I couldn’t be happier for Nicky.”
