{"id":981311,"date":"2026-08-23T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/981311\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:03:15","slug":"former-ku-quarterback-jalon-daniels-delivers-in-buccaneers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/981311\/","title":{"rendered":"Former KU quarterback Jalon Daniels delivers in Buccaneers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tampa Bay, FL. (WIBW) &#8211; Jalon Daniels was not selected in the NFL draft in April after six seasons at the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, Daniels has a chance to earn a spot on an NFL roster as an undrafted rookie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Daniels is competing for a spot with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He led the team to a second-half comeback against the Kansas City Chiefs Saturday, engineering three scoring drives in a 16-15 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The KU product completed 9 of 14 passes for 71 yards and a touchdown. Daniels was not sacked during the game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former KU quarterback Jalon Daniels delivered in the second half of the Buccaneers\u2019 preseason win over the Chiefs. <\/p>\n<p>Daniels led Tampa on 3 scoring drives, including a GW TD drive in the 4th quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been dreaming to be in this position,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More tonight at 5:30 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WIBWsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@WIBWsports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JCEPMJf03T\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JCEPMJf03T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Kinander (@WIBWJason) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WIBWJason\/status\/2091595258320592958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Daniels credited his time at Kansas after Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOne thing that I learned from the University of Kansas is something called \u2018Willie Zero.\u2019 \u2018Willie Zero\u2019 means you just want to be able to get back to the line of scrimmage no matter what,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to make a bad play worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Buccaneers have one preseason game remaining, playing the Jacksonville Jaguars Friday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay, FL. (WIBW) &#8211; Jalon Daniels was not selected in the NFL draft in April after six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[126082,211,346,7,30826,110,2648,4719,9013,19530,55682,6,704,250,15556,2597,2596,49133],"class_list":["post-981311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-13-sports","tag-buccaneers","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-jalon-daniels","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansas-football","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kansas-jayhawks-football","tag-kc-chiefs","tag-ku-football","tag-nfl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-bay-bucs","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers","tag-wibw-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117146852000637542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981311","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=981311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}