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Jayden Daniels of the Washington Commanders celebrates a touchdown in a win over the Bengals. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals was considered the established star among the LSU Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks facing off on Monday night. Jayden Daniels was the Washington Commanders rookie who had an exciting future, but he wasn’t Burrow yet.
It seems there are two star quarterbacks from LSU in the NFL now. On Monday night, Daniels was better. He’s the one we’ll be talking about all week. A new NFL phenomenon might have arrived in front of a national television audience.
Daniels, the second overall pick of this year’s NFL Draft, put on a show in Washington’s 38-33 win over the Bengals. Daniels was simply spectacular in his third NFL game. He was incredibly accurate as a thrower and hard to track down as a runner. And when the Commanders faced an enormous third down with a little more than two minutes to go, Daniels lobbed a beautiful 27-yard touchdown pass to Terry McLaurin to put the Bengals away. Daniels finished 21 of 23 for 254 yards and two touchdowns, with 39 yards and a touchdown rushing. That’s the highest completion percentage for a rookie quarterback in NFL history. Not bad for a third career game.
The Bengals were supposed to be the team excited about this season. They’ve started slow before, but not to this extreme. After a second shocking home upset loss to start the season, Cincinnati is in big trouble at 0-3.
Washington is 2-1 and has to be incredibly excited about its future with Daniels. We could look back on Monday’s coming-out party as an announcement that Daniels had arrived, a lot earlier than expected.
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Publish date : 2024-09-24 03:02:41
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