Washington Commanders sign WR Dyami Brown

The signing of Dyami Brown on a one-year, $3M deal earns a D+ Contract Value Index (CVI), reflecting a mismatch between modest salary and limited upside at this stage of his career. Brown lands in the solid-depth receiver category—capable of filling snaps and providing position versatility, but not a sequence-changer or difference-maker in a pass game. At $3M AAV, the Commanders are paying replacement-level receiver money for replacement-level production, which isn't inherently wasteful in an offseason when cap flexibility is less pressing than filling roster holes, but it's also not a value play or a bet on untapped talent. The one-year structure suggests the front office is treating this as a stopgap depth piece rather than a long-term building block, which tracks with a club sitting at 5-12 and needing to add bodies while resetting. The real risk is that this capital—modest as it is—could have yielded a younger prospect or conditional upside at the same price point, but for a franchise in triage mode during the offseason, it's a harmless low-impact signing that doesn't meaningfully impact the payroll outlook or future flexibility.