"Are we really going to take a quarterback as skinny as Jayden Daniels," a listener, Gene, wrote into the Kevin Sheehan Show in an email. "He's pencil-thin, has a build like RG3 and seems like he's one NFL hit away from the injured reserve list. Doesn't make sense to me we did this before: Heisman winner, insnae athlete, No. 2 overall. But as you've called him in the past 'breakable.' Come on, we can do better than this."
So, does the build of the LSU quarterback give you pause as he has been linked in dozens of mock drafts with the Washington Commanders with the second overall selection in the 2024 NFL Draft?
Before Sheehan gets into Daniels specifically, he first makes the point that Washington must take a quarterback in the first round of this draft, and should come away with the best quarterback they like out of Daniels or Drake Maye (as it appears the Chicago Bears are likely to take Caleb Williams with the No. 1 overall pick and will not be trading it.)
Bottom line, "you've got to get [a good quarterback], or you don't have a chance at what everybody is yearning for, which is sustained contention. Not the one-year run. Not the every other year nine wins, Wild Card. The big-time sustained run where you've got the chance to do what Kansas City's been doing. Everybody strives for that. But you're rarely in a position to make a move for the player that will give you the best chance to achieve that."
But on Daniels, Sheehan agrees with Gene's email that – while he is a big fan of Daniels since early in the college football season – "his frame, his build" is a concern.
"He is skinny. He's thin. He looks breakable," the word Sheehan used to describe Robert Griffin III, "but the interesting thing is, he took some big hits this year and popped right back up. But those are not NFL hits, for the most part, understood."
On the comparison to the former Washington Redskins quarterback and Daniels, Sheehan says "there are big differences" between the two, which includes Griffin's inability to avoid the big hits as he didn't have the periviaral vision required to see hits coming and get down to not get plastered. This is a skill Sheehan sees Daniels possesing.
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