Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris is aware that the poor grades the team received on the 2024 NFLPA report card were indicative of former owner Dan Snyder and not necessarily a reflection of his ownership tenure.
However, the F-minus grades the team received in the treatment of families, locker room and training room categories don’t sit right with him, and he’s quickly looking to remedy those issues.
“I’m not an F-minus guy,” Harris told NBC Sports Washington. “I didn’t even know you could get an F-minus. Obviously, we’ve jumped all over that. First of all, that report was based on interviews that occurred right around the ownership change. So, it’s clearly something that we’re focused on. … We want to be a place that everyone says, ‘That’s a great place to be. Therefore, we need to upgrade that facility — we are upgrading that facility, and there’s only so much you can do [by the start of the season].”
Among the chief complaints from Commanders players regarding the F-minus categories on the NFLPA report card were the lack of a family room and daycare on game day, inadequate locker room space, sewage leaks in the locker room, a lack of enough full-time trainers and physical therapists and outdated training room equipment.
Harris noted he intends to address every one of those concerns, and he mentioned he’s already planning to make several upgrades to the player experience by renovating the player lounge, refinishing certain areas of the facility as well as the playing surface at the practice facility, plus upgrading the locker rooms, restrooms and everything in between.
“Everything we can do right now to make our players feel great about coming to work, feel comfortable and taken care of, we’re going to do,” Harris added.
