The 2024 season didn't end the way the Washington Commanders hoped, as the team got thumped by the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship Game. But the fact that the Commanders were in the game at all is remarkable.
And there is no way the team would have been there were it not for rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels.
The second overall pick out of LSU, Daniels rolled into the NFL with the same momentum he used to win the Heisman Trophy the year before. By season's end, Daniels had completed 69 percent of his passes for 3,568 yards, posted a passer rating over 100 and picked up another 891 yards and six scores on the ground.