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Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels is coming off an impressive rookie season, and Colin Cowherd isn’t afraid to put him up against the league’s elite quarterbacks. Selected with the second-overall pick, the LSU product took the league by storm, guiding the Commanders to the NFC Championship Game while completing 69% of his passes for 3,568 yards, 25 touchdowns, nine interceptions, and a 90.6 PFF grade, the sixth-best mark in the league.
Now entering Year 2 and with Super Bowl aspirations, Colin Cowherd believes that Jayden Daniels is in the same tier as guys like Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen when it comes to untradeable athletes. In a recent segment, the NFL analyst named Daniels as the seventh-most untradable athlete in all of sports, not just football.
Despite playing more than 14,000 snaps in his 13-year career, Wagner is showing no signs of slowing down. Offensive Rookie of the Year Jayden Daniels received a lot of the headlines amid the Commanders’ impressive turnaround last season, and deservedly so, but Wagner’s impact on the defense in his first year with the team should not go unheralded.
Wagner’s 88.3 PFF overall grade ranked third out of 84 qualifying linebackers, and he led the position in PFF pass-rush grade (90.9) and ranked second in PFF run-defense grade (91.2). It was his third straight year of earning a PFF run-defense grade higher than 91.0.
[O]ne can point the finger squarely at Rivera’s draft failings as a huge reason behind his demise.
There are too many examples of poor decision-making to count. One of the most notable centered on the Commanders’ decision to take wide receiver Dyami Brown over several other enticing options at No. 82 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Brown was expected to be a deep threat capable of becoming the No. 2 option behind Terry McLaurin. This never materialized, and the Commanders felt he wasn’t worth the money to keep him around in free agency after the Jacksonville Jaguars came in with a decent offer.
Fans were clamoring for two names at the time, both of whom have enjoyed far more success. The most obvious was Amon-Ra St. Brown, who got discarded until the Detroit Lions ended his slide at No. 112 overall.
He’s been making everyone regret their lack of conviction ever since. And nobody was surprised when Damian Parson from The Bleacher Report named St. Brown among his biggest steals from the 2021 NFL Draft...
