{"id":837797,"date":"2026-09-05T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:30:09","slug":"commanders-jayden-daniels-aims-to-remind-people-of-his-talent-i-cant-live-off-2024-season-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837797\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders’ Jayden Daniels aims to remind people of his talent: ‘I can’t live off\u2019 2024 season | Latest NFL News, Analysis & Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a number of reasons, Daniels could easily bounce back to the form he displayed when first breaking onto the NFL scene. Wide receiver Terry McLaurin<\/a> is back healthy, now joined by Stefon Diggs<\/a>, who is coming off his seventh 1,000-yard receiving season. Washington drafted an enticing pass catcher in Antonio Williams<\/a> in the third round, and while Daniels no longer has trusty target Zach Ertz<\/a> at tight end, Chigoziem Okonkwo<\/a> offers a little more pop at the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s also new offensive coordinator<\/a> David Blough’s system, which Daniels and Co. believe is perfectly suited for the QB’s play style.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe balance of play-action passes, the bootlegging, stuff that we\u2019re able to run to marry up with our run game, get those guys moving laterally, it\u2019s going to help out to be able to get some shots in to showcase what I can do with my arm,\u201d Daniels said. \u201dI\u2019m a passer before I\u2019m a runner. God just blessed me with legs, and the ability to do both. He blessed me with legs a lot of people in this league don\u2019t have. There are some guys that can do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I look back to the year when Josh (Allen)<\/a> won MVP but Lamar (Jackson)<\/a> had that year, and he was still Lamar, but I think he threw for like 4,000 yards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lastly, Daniels intends to lean on the lessons learned from the injuries he endured in 2025. Though he won’t change who he is — a world-class scrambler who rushed for 891 yards as a rookie and 39.7 yards per game in his second season — Daniels will pick his spots and be smarter about avoiding danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s situational,\u201d he said. \u201cEarly in the season, games are lost more than they\u2019re won. Guys are getting in football shape and feeling things out. But when it gets to November, December, when everybody should be playing their peak football, you build up all those reps through time, and those games come down to the one yard or one possession, so every possession, every play matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

There aren’t many predicting an NFC East title for the Commanders, and detractors of Daniels or the team will rightfully point to an offensive line that struggled throughout camp<\/a> in the wake of left tackle\u00a0Laremy Tunsil<\/a>\u00a0tearing his triceps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The club didn’t have a ton of people in its corner before going all the way to the NFC Championship Game with Daniels as a rookie, though.<\/p>\n

Rather than resting on having proven doubters wrong once before, Daniels now sets out to do it again, starting with the team’s season opener<\/a> against the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a number of reasons, Daniels could easily bounce back to the form he displayed when first breaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,15358,3,349,6257,8465,99,3851],"class_list":["post-837797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-jayden-daniels","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-preseason","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837797","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=837797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}