Jayden Daniels comes from a dream season. General selection No. 2 in the NFL 2024 draft won the offensive rookie of the year, then led his team to the NFC title game, becoming one of the six rookie field marshal from the fusion of the AFL-NFL to do so. His Washington commanders left that game to the eventual Super Bowl champion, Eagles Philadelphia, but it was a spectacular season for them, considering where they started.
Even so, Daniels is not satisfied with what he has done.
“As a competitor, you are always trying to find small ways to improve,” Daniels said in a recent podcast appearance, through the NFL Media.
“For me, last year was last year. That’s great, but now it’s a new year. I still have to leave, I have shown my teammates, the organization, every day I am improving. When it’s time to prepare myself and when those games arrive, I have to know that, he hears, how can I eliminate some trends? It is the big thing.”
Daniels, of course, was one of the best NFL players last season, regardless of experience. He completed 69% of his passes to an average of 7.4 yards per attempt while launching 25 touchdowns against 9 interceptions and also running for 891 yards and another 6 scores.
The season ended in the eighth place in the NFL in expected points added by recoil, through Tru Media, publishing a brand (0.15) even better than that of the offensive rookie of the year of the previous season, CJ Stud (0.11). Of course, Daniels will seek to avoid the type of Backslide Stud experienced in year 2 of his NFL career, so he is talking about demonstrating again even after one of the best rookie seasons in the history of the league.
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Like the Texans last year, the commanders updated their support cast as a rookie field before their second season. The acquisition of Debo Samuel should give Daniels a stronger number 2 option in the air game, while Larmy Tunnsil should help protect his blind side. Washington could still give him more help in the NFL draft this week, but, of course, he has a lot of talent to start and showed even as a rookie that he can improve the players around him. Always, that is, he does the work he is talking about to improve.
