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For obvious reasons, the old name can’t come back,” Harris told reporters, via The Athletic.

“But right now, we’re focused on things to unify the team around our football team and unify the city around our football team.

The first objective is we gotta start winning football games, and we need everyone supporting the team and not things that will drive people apart.

“Secondly, obviously, we’re trying to find a new home. Again, unifying (the) city around that is important and so, the name is one of those things that have a lot of opinions … but I certainly haven’t forgotten about it.

Like I said, I grew up here. So, I understand it.”

Harris added that fans will see things that honor the past history of the franchise – just not the name.

“We are doing research, and we’re thinking about it.

But right now, we’re prioritizing the things that we’ve talked about and that’s kind of the rationale for it.”

The team announced it would be the Commanders before the 2022 season, moving on from the Washington Football Team and the Washington Redskins.

However, the Commanders faced a lawsuit in September 2023 from the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) over the nickname change.

New head coach Dan Quinn also wore a T-shirt that featured the feather on the original Redskins logo and the new “W” in the Commanders logo.