{"id":61888,"date":"2025-12-16T01:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:33:07","slug":"jayden-daniels-wont-face-philadelphia-eagles-in-week-16-as-commanders-shut-down-qb-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61888\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Daniels won&#8217;t face Philadelphia Eagles in Week 16 as Commanders shut down QB for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayden Daniels will be shut down for the rest of the Washington Commanders&#8217; season, starting with Saturday&#8217;s game against the reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-vs-raiders-week-15-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to sit him for the final three games,&#8221; Washington coach Dan Quinn said Monday during a video conference with reporters, calling the decision &#8220;part medical and part team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of today,&#8221; Quinn added, &#8220;he still wasn&#8217;t all the way cleared to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders (4-10) have been eliminated from playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels appeared in only seven games this season, missing time because of a sprained left knee, a hurt right hamstring and, most recently, a dislocated left elbow that he aggravated when he returned to action against the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels sat out Sunday&#8217;s 29-21 victory at the New York Giants, which ended Washington&#8217;s eight-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Daniels appeared in all 20 games the Commanders played, including a 12-5 regular season and a run to the NFC title game before losing to the Eagles. He earned AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors after being the No. 2 overall pick in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Now his second season in the NFL is already done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe this decision allows him to take advantage of the next few weeks. He wants to practice and he will practice,&#8221; Quinn said. &#8220;We all know the best way to grow is during the games \u2026 but there&#8217;s plenty of ways for him to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, Daniels was superb, completing 69% of his passes for 3,568 yards with 25 touchdowns and nine interceptions and running for 891 yards with six TDs.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner at LSU owns a completion rate of 60.6 with 1,262 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions. His passer rating slid from 100.1 to 88.1. He ran for 278 yards with two scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayden Daniels will be shut down for the rest of the Washington Commanders&#8217; season, starting with Saturday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,4968,4849,69,4538,71,70,726,18022],"class_list":["post-61888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-football","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-national-football-league","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}