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In this week’s Reacts survey, we asked Hogs Haven readers to identify their greatest concern — if any — about Jayden Daniels in the upcoming season.
As it turned out, 76% of respondents chose one of two answers, in nearly equal numbers. While 36% of readers who responded to the survey expressed complete confidence in Jayden, four out of ten — the largest single group of poll participants — answered that their greatest concern was that the 3rd year quarterback would again suffer one or more serious injuries.
It’s hard to dismiss the injury concern given that Jayden Daniels has, 4 times in two seasons, been unable, due to injury, to finish games that he started. He also completely missed 10 games in 2025 due to a variety of injuries and ailments.
Jayden suffered three key injuries in his sophomore year in the NFL. The first occurred in Week 2 — a knee sprain that sidelined him for two weeks. That was followed by a hamstring injury around Week 7 that caused him to miss another game. The final blow came in two stages. The first occurred in Week 9 against the Seattle Seahawks when he suffered a dislocated elbow; he managed to return to the field in Week 14, but fell hard on that same elbow while chasing down a defender who had made interception, re-aggravating the injury and ending his season.
The knee sprain was caused by a scramble up the middle on Thursday Night Football during a Week 2 loss to the Green Bay Packers. He landed awkwardly as he was tackled, which ultimately resulted in a low-grade knee sprain. Despite the injury, he actually finished playing out the game before an MRI the following Monday confirmed the sprain.
His hamstring injury was caused by a sack-and-fumble play early in the third quarter against the Dallas Cowboys when Dallas linebacker Shemar James rushed up the middle on a first-and-10. Daniels pulled the ball down to avoid throwing an interception, but as James hit him and pulled him backward, Daniels lunged forward to protect the ball (which he fumbled) and, on the sack, James landed awkwardly on the back of Jayden’s leg.
Daniels’ elbow dislocation was caused by a scramble and sack play late in the fourth quarter against the Seattle Seahawks when Daniels took a snap on second-and-goal and scrambled to his right. Seattle linebacker Drake Thomas tracked him down and sacked him at the 4-yard line. As Daniels was slung to the ground, he instinctively planted his left hand (his non-throwing arm) to break the fall, resulting in the dislocation. He re-aggravated the injury on the road in Minnesota when he was blocked to the ground chasing after a defensive back who had intercepted Daniels’ pass to Terry McLaurin in the red zone.
His four injury events in 2025 were the result of (No. 1) scrambling on a called pass play; (No....
