By A to Z Sports,Josh Taylor

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It’s early in the season, but the Washington Commanders are one of the many banged-up teams in the league right now. We already know about Austin Ekeler and Deatrich Wise missing the rest of the season with major injuries, but we’ve been waiting on updates with a lot of other key players.We finally got an update on Monday from head coach Dan Quinn, and the team could be short-handed come Sunday. Starting quarterback Jayden Daniels has a sprained knee and is in doubt for Sunday, but two other starters on offense will unlikely play, according to Quinn.

Noah Brown and John Bates updates

Losing Daniels for a week is already a big blow, but adding wide receiver Noah Brown and tight end John Bates to it really puts the offense behind if Marcus Mariota is the quarterback come Sunday. Bates and Brown both left the game and never returned, and Quinn said both are “long shots” to play against the Las Vegas Raiders.”Yeah, I think it’s a long shot,” Quinn said. “But we’ll have to find out when we get through Wednesday and where we’re at. Both of them had soft tissue injuries, and we’ll just see what it looks like as we get through Wednesday, but we’re still assessing him and John [Jones] and Jayden [Daniels] as well. So those are the four that it’s too early to call for me. And so, once we get in, we’ll get together on Wednesday and have a better discussion for that.”