{"id":486415,"date":"2024-08-19T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486415"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T20:10:36","slug":"commanders-pick-rookie-daniels-as-the-starting-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/commanders-pick-rookie-daniels-as-the-starting-quarterback\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders pick rookie Daniels as the starting quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Commanders announced what has been expected since the National Football League draft: Jayden Daniels is their starting QB.<\/p>\n<p>Washington manager Dan Quinn shared the news today, though Jayden, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall selection at the 2024 NFL Draft, had been working with the 1<sup>st<\/sup> team exclusively in training camp for the last 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Before that time, Marcus Mariota took the leading role as the QB1, though the rookie would take snaps with the starters in both full-team work and 7-on-7 drills.<\/p>\n<p>Jayden, the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner, also started both of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 preseason matches; Marcus was unavailable to be on the field 2 days ago in Miami because of a hamstring problem, but that didn&#8217;t impact the rookie\u2019s status.<\/p>\n<p>In 2 preseason matches, Jayden completed 12 of 15 passes for 123 yards. The rookie did not throw a TD pass but scored on a 3-yard run vs. the Jets on a zone read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Expected but now official: Commanders HC Dan Quinn named rookie No. 2 overall pick Jayden Daniels as Washington\u2019s new No. 1 QB.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels is now slated to start opening day in Tampa against the Buccaneers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WXEZHuu6jq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WXEZHuu6jq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1825593452631150962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Commanders announced what has been expected since the National Football League draft: Jayden Daniels is their starting QB. Washington manager Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,16853],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[23307,17873,18189],"acf":{"announce":"Washington officially named Jayden as the starting QB.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486417,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486415\/revisions\/486417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486415"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486415"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}