Daily Slop - 6 July 25

Daily Slop - 6 July 25
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Projecting 2024 rookie QB class in 2025: Can Caleb Williams bounce back, Jayden Daniels continue his rise?

Jayden Daniels: Minor tweaks after outstanding debut

Daniels produced one of the best rookie seasons ever — if not the best rookie season ever — by a quarterback. He was preternaturally calm. He processed defenses like a 10-year veteran. His physical gifts were as advertised, and perhaps even better.

The following notes, hence, are not really criticisms, but simply nits to pick — maybe the difference between a star, which he already is, and a superstar, a surefire MVP candidate.

First, we’d like to see Daniels improve his accuracy from inside the pocket. Though accurate in general and incredibly accurate outside the pocket, Daniels had an 11.2% off-target rate on throws in the pocket, 25th out of 36 qualifying quarterbacks. While the misses weren’t way off, Daniels did leave some open throws on the field when his mobility wasn’t a factor.

This generally occurred over two settings: when the defense did a good job keeping him hemmed in or for a small stretch after Daniels’ rib injury. In the four-week stretch after Daniels’ injury against the Panthers, he scrambled on just 9.5% of his dropbacks, down from his 12.5% rate for the season as a whole. He didn’t have a single scramble against the Steelers. And in those games, he had lots of misses from the pocket. Daniels’ worst game from the pocket was his single half against the Cowboys in Week 18, when he knew he was only going to play one half and was purposely mostly confined to the pocket for safety purposes. (The Commanders had already clinched a playoff berth.)


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2025 opponent breakdown | Los Angeles Chargers

  • What’s the running back rotation going to look like? The Chargers will have a much different backfield than they did in 2024, when Dobbins led a rushing attack that had nine different players with a rushing attempt (10 if you count punter JK Scott). Now, Hampton’s quickness and Harris’ physicality will rule the Chargers’ ground game. The two should complement each other well, as Hampton was one of the most explosive weapons in college football last season while Harris has powered forward for four straight 1,000-yard campaigns. It will be interesting to see how that workload gets split up. Harris is a known commodity and was signed for nearly $10 million, according to reports, and has a good shot to provide the franchise with its first 1,000-yard rusher since Melvin Gordon. Hampton, on the other hand, is a first-round pick and proven himself as a more dynamic weapon as a runner and pass-catcher. The Chargers will likely implement a committee approach, but if it...