Commanders announce full training camp schedule initially appeared on NBC Sports Washington
The Washington Commanders announced their full 2022 training camp schedule on Thursday, which can start on July 27 and run by means of August 18.
Commanders’ coaching camp will probably be held virtually solely on the workforce’s headquarters in Ashburn, per the release. The Commanders formally is not going to journey to Richmond, the place Washington has held coaching camp yearly since 2013 — excluding the pandemic-altered season in 2020. The workforce spent one week in Richmond final summer season earlier than returning to Ashburn for the rest of camp.
For the Commanders, selecting to not maintain coaching camp in Richmond is just not a lot of a shock. Final yr, the team paid the city $100,000 to hire out the Bon Secours Coaching Middle for one week. Over the earlier seven years, Richmond had paid the Commanders $500,000 to carry camp within the metropolis.
In March, Commanders head coach Ron Rivera admitted that holding coaching camp in Richmond did not make sense financially.
“The issue with the brief [travel] interval is it’s not, from what I’m studying, it’s not financially equitable,” Rivera said at the NFL owner’s meetings. “You’re there a brief, transient time then you definately gotta transfer the whole lot and get your self arrange once more.”
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Though most practices will probably be in Ashburn, the Commanders will maintain one apply on the workforce’s house stadium, FedEx Discipline, on Saturday, Aug. 6. That session will probably be open to the general public, as followers can be found to assert tickets for the occasion freed from price.
Moreover, followers can enter a lottery system for the chance to attend coaching camp practices in Ashburn. The workforce plans to launch extra particulars about how this course of will work nearer to the start of coaching camp.
“Our inaugural coaching camp because the Commanders is not going to solely provide our followers entrance row seats because the workforce prepares for the kickoff of the 2022 season but additionally will ship these experiences throughout our Commanders neighborhood,” workforce president Jason Wright stated in a press release.
“We’re excited to supply a wide range of fan-facing alternatives throughout the area so followers can come out, watch the workforce put together, work together with the gamers and training employees, and take part on the joy celebrating our first season on this new period.”
