When the Washington Commanders drafted Jayden Daniels with the second overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft, Chicago Bears fans became arrogant because they selected Caleb Williams. As the season progressed, it became increasingly clear that the Commanders had the right guy under center.
Not only did Daniels break records and set new ones, but he transformed an entire franchise, with the help of Adam Peters and Dan Quinn, of course. Daniels’ talent is evident every time he’s on the field, but what you might not know about him is how much he studies the game of football.
Daniels proved just how much film he watches when he participated in the quarterback silhouette challenge in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl XLVII.
Jayden Daniels absolutely crushed this challenge pic.twitter.com/2Z2b9MUOxQ
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) February 8, 2025
In the game, Daniels is shown a black-and-white video of a quarterback through some part of his progression. In some cases it’s a drop-back, in others it’s a scramble, and Daniels’ job is to guess who the quarterback is from just this image.
Daniels got every single video correct. Patrick Mahomes, Kyler Murray, Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, Tua Tagovailoa, and Aaron Rodgers, and he gives a distinguishing characteristic of each player indicating how he knew who it was.
Jayden Daniels is going to have a long and illustrious career in the NFL. Not just because he’s a talented player who can get the job done, but because he studies the game, learns from it, adapts his own game and decision-making to what is happening, and he is incredibly humble about all of it.