{"id":159739,"date":"2025-06-26T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/159739\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:31:12","slug":"colin-cowherd-has-lofty-comparisons-for-commanders-qb-jayden-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/159739\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Cowherd has lofty comparisons for Commanders QB Jayden Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves to compare young players to established veterans, especially quarterbacks. <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Washington Commanders<\/a> quarterback Jayden Daniels was so good as a rookie that many analysts weren&#8217;t sure of an accurate comparison. Some said Lamar Jackson due to Daniels&#8217; speed and scrambling ability.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Cowherd has a lofty comparison for Daniels, involving Jackson and another quarterback: Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kid is Lamar plus Mahomes,&#8221; Cowherd said on a recent edition of The Herd. &#8220;His poise in the fourth quarter doesn&#8217;t make sense. And here&#8217;s the thing, the NFL gives you an all-time quarterback legend about every six years, and I&#8217;m talking Peyton Manning, (John) Elway, Mahomes, (Brett) Favre. I&#8217;m telling you, he singularly won a road playoff game. And I thought Andrew Luck was the best quarterback I ever saw as a rookie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daniels had some spectacular come-from-behind wins as a rookie last season. Whether it was the Hail Mary against the Bears, the spectacular five-touchdown performance in the upset over the Eagles, his game-winning drive over the Falcons, or his performance in the playoff win over the Buccaneers that Cowherd referenced, Daniels did things most veteran quarterbacks couldn&#8217;t or didn&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels proved he has the clutch gene, just like Mahomes. And while it&#8217;s difficult to compare any quarterback to Mahomes or Jackson, it&#8217;s hard not to get excited about Daniels entering his second NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/commanderswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/commanders\/2025\/06\/26\/colin-cowherd-commanders-jayden-daniels-lamar-jackson-patrick-mahomes\/84364447007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colin Cowherd with big-time comparisons for Commanders&#039; Jayden Daniels;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colin Cowherd with big-time comparisons for Commanders&#8217; Jayden Daniels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone loves to compare young players to established veterans, especially quarterbacks. Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[35909,6502,6405,427,7,734,895,6,499,8083,6718,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-159739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-accurate-comparison","9":"tag-andrew-luck","10":"tag-colin-cowherd","11":"tag-commanders","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jayden-daniels","14":"tag-lamar-jackson","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patrick-mahomes","17":"tag-peyton-manning","18":"tag-quarterbacks","19":"tag-washington","20":"tag-washington-commanders","21":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}