Jayden Daniels danced to his right, then backpedaled. He kept scrambling, kept holding the ball, and holding it, and holding it, buying himself a few more seconds before finally letting it fly. The quarterback with bruised ribs, who’d been sacked twice and hit seven more times by the Chicago Bears’ defense, launched the football 62 yards in the air.
It was the Washington Commanders’ last chance.
A moment later, after a fortuitous ricochet, that ball was resting in the hands of Washington wideout Noah Brown, who stood alone in the end zone.