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Against Minnesota, Daniels was shoved to the ground while pursuing linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel, who had intercepted him. Daniels landed on his left elbow and stayed on the ground for a minute after the play before bouncing up and running to the sideline, clearly frustrated.
After the game, Quinn said Daniels could have returned to the game — he was never ruled out. But by Wednesday, the coach said that Daniels had aggravated the injury.
Daniels said, “Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Things change when stuff settles down.”
He said that they did more tests the day after the game and that “I felt it.”
Daniels wanted to keep playing but, because he wasn’t cleared and because of the shortened week, the decision was made for him to stop.
“This was the right call,” Quinn said, “even though it was a difficult one.”
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Jayden Daniels described his injury-riddled 2025 season as “frustrating” and “disappointing” and wholly unlike anything he or the Commanders expected.
“A lot more emotions,” he said Tuesday in his first comments since coach Dan Quinn announced the quarterback will not play in Washington’s final three games. “… I don’t wanna miss games at all. I’ve been frustrated this whole season missing games. I want to be out there with my teammates as much as possible, so it’s just been a frustrating year at this point in the year, but you learn from it when you move forward.”
Only four of Daniels’ starts this season went all four quarters. And only two of his appearances resulted in wins. He’s the only quarterback in NFL history to win offensive rookie of the year and then play as few as seven games the next season, according to Next Gen Stats.
Adding to Daniels’ frustration, however, is the belief that at least two of his injuries were fluke incidents.
“Other than that one game I missed for the hamstring, I mean, my knee and obviously my elbow, those aren’t things that you could really necessarily prepare for,” he said. “Those are freak accidents and things like that, so it’s most definitely frustrating and, at that time, I would say, traumatic and stuff like that.”
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