CBSSports - How Commanders QB can improve in Year 2 by Jared Dubin
Posted: Fri May 30, 2025 1:33 am
Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels had one of the best rookie seasons a quarterback has ever had. Daniels completed 69% of his passes at an average of 7.4 yards per attempt, threw 25 touchdown passes against just nine interceptions, ran for 891 yards and an additional six scores, had a passer rating over 100 and a QBR over 70 and checked in eighth in the entire league in TruMedia's expected points added (EPA) per dropback.
Heading into Year 2, it's fair to expect big things of Daniels, even if we know that improvement isn't always linear. Coach Dan Quinn certainly seems like he's expecting Daniels to be even better as a sophomore than he was as a rookie.
"There is no flinch in Jayden Daniels," Quinn said, via ProFootballTalk. "He's an absolute like, as focused and relentless as you could about getting better. And so that's why I said for us around here, man, we appreciate that and there's a lot of things that he and the rest of us are really digging in hard on to say, all right, can we get this better? And if he does that, I do that, others do that … there's a lot of space we can get better at."
It's worth questioning what, exactly, Daniels can get better at after such a spectacular Offensive Rookie of the Year campaign. So we decided to dig into the numbers and the film to pinpoint some potential areas of improvement.
Let's be clear that these are all extremely nit-picky. Daniels was so good at so many things that it's difficult to find areas of the game where he did not perform well. We're left to drill down on hyper-specific things, some of which may not even be sticky from year to year. With that said, here are a few areas where Daniels could conceivably get better.
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Heading into Year 2, it's fair to expect big things of Daniels, even if we know that improvement isn't always linear. Coach Dan Quinn certainly seems like he's expecting Daniels to be even better as a sophomore than he was as a rookie.
"There is no flinch in Jayden Daniels," Quinn said, via ProFootballTalk. "He's an absolute like, as focused and relentless as you could about getting better. And so that's why I said for us around here, man, we appreciate that and there's a lot of things that he and the rest of us are really digging in hard on to say, all right, can we get this better? And if he does that, I do that, others do that … there's a lot of space we can get better at."
It's worth questioning what, exactly, Daniels can get better at after such a spectacular Offensive Rookie of the Year campaign. So we decided to dig into the numbers and the film to pinpoint some potential areas of improvement.
Let's be clear that these are all extremely nit-picky. Daniels was so good at so many things that it's difficult to find areas of the game where he did not perform well. We're left to drill down on hyper-specific things, some of which may not even be sticky from year to year. With that said, here are a few areas where Daniels could conceivably get better.
Click here for the whole article