WASHINGTON \u2014 Quarterback Jayden Daniels will miss the Washington Commanders’ game at the Kansas City Chiefs because of an injured right hamstring, and Marcus Mariota will start in his place, a person with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team had not officially ruled him out for the Monday night game.<\/p>\n
Washington (3-4) has lost two games in a row heading into the contest at Kansas City (4-3).<\/p>\n
Daniels\u00a0had an MRI exam a day after leaving in the third quarter of Washington\u2019s 44-22 loss at the NFC East-rival Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. He grabbed at the back of his right leg while limping off the field after getting sacked and fumbling.<\/p>\n
Daniels, the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year last season, already has missed two games this season because of an injury to his left knee, on which he\u2019s been wearing a brace. Washington went 1-1 in those games with the Saint Louis School graduate Mariota starting in his place \u2014 a 41-24 win over the Las Vegas Raiders and a 34-27 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n
Against Dallas, Mariota came in to replace Daniels and threw a pick-6 on his second pass of the day.<\/p>\n
The former Heisman Trophy winner out of Oregon has thrown three touchdowns against two picks on the season, completing 60.3% of his passes. The Kansas City game will be his fourth to see action this season, his most since he was the starter for the Falcons in 13 games in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Quarterback Jayden Daniels will miss the Washington Commanders’ game at the Kansas City Chiefs because of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[556,555,2160,150,152,151,557,13213,13214,154,2053],"class_list":["post-16659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-associated-press","tag-hawaii","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}