Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson, and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the historic rookie season Jayden Daniels is having and if there’s a chance he could win Rookie of the Year and MVP. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
Jay Daniels has been so far and beyond what I thought he was gonna be as a rookie.
That to me, he’s the biggest surprise.
I thought he’d be rookie of the year.
I didn’t think he’d be an MVP candidate like he has been on just like he has not had a bad game yet.
I didn’t expect somebody to duplicate the CJ.
Stroud rookie season the next year.
Like I thought this is a comic.
This isn’t gonna happen again for a while.
And Jay Daniels has been awesome.
One of my favorite stories about him.
A couple of linemen were heading into the facility.
Uh, and I think it was like 6 a.m. and they’re thinking like, oh, we’re gonna get in here, we’re getting in early, we’re gonna get our lift in.
We’re gonna, we’re gonna be the early guys, all this stuff.
We’re gonna unlock the, the front door and they get there and Jane Daniels is there, he’s already lifted and he’s like halfway through his film work at like 6 a.m. Like that is some like Kobe stuff.
There’s some aspect of him that has captured everyone in that organization.
And when I talked to some people there heading into the trade deadline even.
They were like, look, we still got a lot of work to do on our roster and somehow we are where we are.
I was high in the commanders.
Obviously, they’re a team.
I talked about a lot in the summer but when I read Joy’s story about this guy’s already all in, like, he’s, he’s their first guy there last guy to and a lot of times that’s nonsense.
But in this case, this guy is different.
This is not the norm, especially for a rookie quarterback.
He already gets it just stay healthy, Jaden because man, the sky’s the limit for this kid if he makes it, if he makes it, I will always tell people I was there the moment where I’m telling that preseason game when he audible out of that out of that screen and knew he shouldn’t, wasn’t supposed to, was specifically told not to.
And he was like, I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna throw a go ball and I’m just gonna get in trouble.
This is how it’s gonna have to be and throw a dime and a freaking dime brown.
I believe it was.
I will never, it will be and, and just hearing Dan Quinn be like that was his buzz of the tower moment like he, he just, he was gonna do it and, and we’re gonna yell at him later.
But what the hell I that will always resonate to me that moment where I’m like, whoa, this dude, he just said, screw it.
I’m not gonna listen, I’m gonna win.
I’m gonna make this play because I can make this play and the players were all like, that’s pretty sweet.
