Washington Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels has been as advertised through the first month of the NFL season. He’s calm, composed, accurate with the football, and rarely puts it in harm’s way.
Oh, and he’s a dynamite runner too.
Leading the Commanders to a 4-1 record, the hype and optimism surrounding the organization is rapidly growing.
While some are already praising Daniels as Washington’s savior, and others are talking about him being the 2024 version of C.J. Stroud, who lit up the league in his rookie year last season, Jayden isn’t interested in all of that talk. He just wants to keep improving as a player.
“Finding ways to keep growing,” Daniels said. “I wouldn’t say I’m a finished product, but it’s just a start, and I don’t really look at everything that people talk about. I see it, but other than that, none of that matters. That was last weeks stuff, you [are] only as good as the last game you play, and everybody going to look at what can you do the week prior and the weeks after that.”
Daniels’ stats through the first month make for good reading if you are a Washington fan.
That all equates to a good month of football, by any estimation, but Daniels knows to keep things even-keeled, and his head coach, Dan Quinn, has preached not “riding the roller-coaster” of emotions from week to week. And going by Jayden’s comments, it appears he’s doing just that.
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