{"id":829295,"date":"2026-08-29T02:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829295\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:18:26","slug":"jalon-daniels-will-start-tonight-for-bucs-with-chance-to-secure-no-2-qb-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829295\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalon Daniels will start tonight for Bucs with chance to secure No. 2 QB job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalon Daniels <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/bucs\/2026\/08\/28\/jalon-daniels-quarterback-competition-jake-browning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will start tonight\u2019s preseason finale<\/a> against Jacksonville and will play the first half and possibly into the third quarter, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs are giving the undrafted rookie from Kansas a chance to win the backup job to Baker Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Browning and Connor Bazelak will follow Daniels tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels rallied the Bucs to come-from-behind wins against the Jets and Chiefs the past two weeks, and in two weeks, he is 19-of-20 for 182 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions. He also has rushed for a score.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels took the majority of reps during the Bucs\u2019 seven-on-seven period after Mayfield today, per Stroud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalon Daniels will start tonight\u2019s preseason finale against Jacksonville and will play the first half and possibly into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-829295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}