Before this season, any Washington Commanders fan — shoot, any reasonable NFL fan — would have begun a ranking of quarterbacks taken in the 2024 draft with Jayden Daniels and then sorted through the rest. Prefer Drake Maye over Caleb Williams? Fine. Think Michael Penix Jr. has more potential than Bo Nix? Whatever. Daniels was the man around whom to build a team. Everyone else competed for second place.
