ASHBURN, Va. — By the time cornerback Rasul Douglas ended Thursday morning’s practice session for the Washington Commanders with an interception that had defensive players hooting and hollering, Washington’s offense had long settled into an early training camp lull. The second day of Commanders training camp was marked by a slew of dropped passes spread over multiple receivers and backs — and a dominant, disruptive performance by the defense.“They had a really good day,” top wide receiver Terry McLaurin said. “I’m not afraid to say that.”Two days of workouts don’t make a season — or even a training camp. The Commanders won’t so much as put on pads until next week. But these practices are scrutinized by coaches and players alike.“You want to ask: ‘What was the intent of the play? Did we make the right check? Did we go to the right location?’” coach Dan Quinn said. “That could be at any number of spots. You want to evaluate what specific things you want to nail for tomorrow.”Which is a longer way of saying: What happens on the practice field matters each day. After two workouts — and with only a walkthrough scheduled for Friday — here’s what stood out for the Commanders.Burks is out — alreadyNo topic has taken up more air time and ink in Washington’s offseason than whether the team has enough talent and depth at receiver. When camp opened Wednesday, Treylon Burks — a former first-round pick with Tennessee who caught 10 passes for 130 yards in eight games with the Commanders in 2025 — spent much of his time with the first team.Burks, though, sat out Thursday’s practice with what Quinn described as soreness in his foot.“Something that we’re not looking at as a long-term one,” Quinn said.Still, with McLaurin the only receiver likely to scare opposing defenses, each practice is an opportunity for the remaining players to make plays. Burks’ injury may indeed be minor, and it’s possible he could be back on the field as soon as Saturday.But his absence Thursday again raises questions about his durability — questions that have dogged him since his rookie year of 2022. Burks, 26, has never played in more than 11 games in a season and has never had more targets (54), catches (33) or yards (444) than he did as a rookie.With Burks out, third-year receiver Luke McCaffrey and veteran free-agent signee Van Jefferson spent most of the time alongside McLaurin in three-receiver sets. Tight end Chig Okonkwo is also versatile enough to line up on the outside.The unexpected benefit of GoProsQuarterback Jayden Daniels — the linchpin of this entire operation — had an uneven first day of camp, throwing behind several receivers during a session focused exclusively on red zone play.“You’re gonna have good days, you’re gonna have bad days,” Daniels said. “It’s part of football. It’s part of camp. … I’d rather fail in camp than come the season. You try to be critical. You take the coaching.”One part of that coaching this offseason has been the use of cameras attached to the quarterbacks’ helmets that can be used for film study after practice. While Daniels cautions that the tape doesn’t always provide what the quarterback sees — “My eyes might be somewhere else, but my helmet’s that way,” he said — the coaching staff has learned that it can evaluate how quarterbacks are communicating the calls in the huddle and at the line of scrimmage.“You want to listen to it,” Daniels said, “listen to how you call the play, how you’re calling the play and make sure you’re delivering a message, painting a picture to the other guys in the huddle to understand the play.”Center depth is being testedWhen the Commanders cut veteran center Tyler Biadasz in February, it left Nick Allegretti — who has spent all but a handful of snaps during a seven-year career at guard — as the starting center.“I love center,” Allegretti, who is still listed as a guard on the Commanders’ roster, said during offseason workouts. “I love the mental side of the game. It’s a challenging place to play. It’s mentally demanding, making important calls and protection adjustments at the line of scrimmage.”Allegretti, though, suffered a calf injury in Wednesday’s first workout and therefore sat out Thursday. Quinn said the injury is unlikely to hold Allegretti out for long, but it immediately put a spotlight on Julian Good-Jones, a 29-year-old veteran who has appeared in one NFL game, and rookie Matt Gulbin, a sixth-round pick out of Michigan State in this year’s NFL Draft.Good-Jones, whose lone appearance came in 2023 with Washington, took first-team snaps Thursday. He has spent much of the past three seasons on the Commanders’ practice squad.“Dude, it’s a blast,” Good-Jones said Thursday. “I’ve been here a while now, and these are my guys. This is what we prepare for. I’ve been lucky enough that here, we mix guys up all the time. So I feel comfortable playing next to whoever they put me with.”The kicker competition is liveThursday brought the first live kicking competition of camp, with veteran Jake Moody and rookie Drew Stevens each getting the chance to kick six field goals in rapid succession and then kicking again after what would have been “fourth down” in 11-on-11 drills.Moody, a former third-round pick of San Francisco, made all six of his attempts from distances that gradually worked their way back to perhaps 50 yards. (Note: the kicking competition was held on a low field, and reporters couldn’t get a vantage point that allowed them to see the yard lines.) He then made two more following 11-on-11 situations.Stevens, an undrafted free agent from Iowa with an extremely strong leg, also nailed each of his six attempts and then made his only kick following 11-on-11 play. Stevens made 76 of 95 field goals and 124 of 126 extra points in a four-year career at Iowa.The Commanders have used seven different kickers in the three years of general manager Adam Peters’ tenure.Quinn gets up closeDuring the periods of practice when the offense faces the defense — either in 11-on-11 or skeleton drills without the offensive and defensive lines — the defensive players and coaches stand on one side of the field, with their offensive counterparts on the opposite sideline.That leaves Quinn as the lone exception. He spent the first two days of practice watching from various points close to the action — including from the center’s position when the linemen weren’t on the field. This positioning isn’t an accident.“Sometimes I want to see the eyes of the defense, if it’s zone, to see where they’re looking,” Quinn said. “If they have vision of the quarterback, I want to make sure I am seeing where their eyes are. …“Sometimes I want to see it from the offensive perspective to where I’m the center, I’m the quarterback, I’m seeing spacing, I’m seeing timing. And that’s really where I can also see the accuracy, like balls thrown on the right side in a zone to extend plays. Just small cues that I’m trying to find that I may have not seen from a sideline perspective.”After Friday’s walk-through — closed to fans and media — the Commanders will welcome fans to practice for the first time on Saturday. They follow that workout with another walk-through Sunday, then three straight full practices Monday through Wednesday.