.John Keim, ESPN Workers WriterSep 28, 2024, 06:00 AM ETCloseJohn Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after an assignment with the Washington Message. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Diary Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has actually authored/co-authored four manuals. You may also listen to him on 'The John Keim File', which airs on ESPN Richmond broadcast, as well as follow him on Twitter @john_keimPHOENIX-- It's been actually 3 activities, yet Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels has currently made a feeling on his team and also the NFL.He has earned a number of player of the full week honors, given a near-perfect efficiency before a nationwide target market and instilled hope in a company that have not had much for a number of years." It is actually incredible," pointed out expert linebacker Bobby Wagner. "It's a great start [but] let him finish composing his account for the time ... yet what he is actually managed to perform, his composure, the technique he managed himself from the instant he strolled in you understood he 'd be actually special as well as he's presenting it." The varieties back up Wagner's claim. A vital to Washington's 2-1 file getting in Sunday's activity at the Arizona Cardinals (4:05 p.m. ET, Fox) is actually Daniels' early-season excellence.Editor's Picks1 RelatedHe finished 21 of 23 passes for 254 yards and also two touchdowns while hurrying for one more credit rating in a Monday night succeed against the Cincinnati Bengals. He was actually named the NFL's Offensive Player of the Week, 2 weeks after being actually called the offensive novice of the week.Two days after his breakout second in Cincinnati, he was unfazed." It's yet another video game," Daniels claimed. "That activity's in the past, do not even indicate absolutely nothing no more." A look at his amounts over those first 3 activities presents his season so far is actually not just another begin to a period through a rookie, however.Here are actually the statistics responsible for Daniels' outstanding NFL start.Daniels is the only player because at the very least 1970 to compete 3 touchdowns, pass for 2 more and also throw no interceptions in his initial 3 games.This incorporates what Daniels has actually offered thus far: a good arm, strong decision-making as well as the potential to manage. Each goal passes happened Monday versus the Bengals, featuring a 27-yarder in the fourth one-fourth against a full-scale assault. He equaled by a free of cost rusher on the play but threw an excellent pass to receiver Terry McLaurin in the end region to secure the 38-33 victory.Speaking to press reporters Wednesday, trainer Dan Quinn said he was actually "proud of the decision-making, the method he is actually going through." He is actually difficult to defend as a result of his lower legs. He can easily get outside the pocket. There is actually a double hazard." Image by Cooper Neill/Getty ImagesDaniels has actually tossed 90 passes without an interception to start his career.This goes over but he's certainly not also midway to the document specified final time by Houston's C.J. Stroud, who tried 192 passes just before he was actually obstructed in Full week 6. Dallas' Dak Prescott recently held the report at 176, having actually broken Tom Brady's mark of 162. Daniels has actually completed 80.3% of his pass efforts, which leads the NFL.It aids that 36.8% of his tosses go to or even behind free throw line of skirmish. But, for context, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes rates 2nd in the NFL behind Environment-friendly Gulf Packers QB Malik Willis in this field at 39.1%. Prescott set the NFL report for newbie fulfillment portion (67.6) in 2016, ranking 14th in sky yards every attempt." When you're in completion of the video game to possess a good chance to gain it," Quinn said of Daniels, that has actually led Washington to a credit rating in the last things of each video game, excluding a kneel down against the Bengals, "as well as you are smiling considering that you understand you're ready as well as you have actually remained in that room, that's one of the things that I love concerning him." Daniels rates 13th in complete QBR at 67.9. Top of NFL Country u2022 Kyler Murray locating on-field comfort u2022 Chiefs' Rice eyes preserved excellence u2022 Saints' Jordan embraces brand-new task u2022 Texans need to secure Stroud to be prosperous u2022 Chargers QB Heinicke utilized to coming in.His QBR ranking of 92.5 against the Bengals is the 6th greatest by a Washington quarterback because 2015. The Commanders have actually had only 9 activities in the previous 5 seasons blended where a quarterback has actually finished with a score that high. Coming from 2018-23, Washington's QBR for the season was actually certainly never higher than 45.7. The final opportunity the franchise do with a QBR of 60 or even far better resided in 2016, when Kirk Cousins started every activity. That's also the final opportunity they completed with a succeeding record.Daniels has accomplished 40.8% of his passes for first downs, fifth in the NFL.Since 2000, the greatest portion of first downs every elapsed effort by a rookie quarterback is actually 44.1% by Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger in 2004. Stroud finished 37.7% of his masquerade 1st downs final period, ending up 10th in the NFL.Only one gamer rankings in the top five in first downs per operate one of certified rushes and also very first downs per pass effort: Daniels. He tracks just Baltimore's Lamar Jackson (40.0%) by one fifty percent of a percentage point in very first downs per thrill. Jackson ranks eighth in very first downs every successfully pass try at 36.7%. There is actually space for growth through Daniels as Quinn has pointed out-- maintaining his eyes upfield when he shuffles, reaching additional large plays downfield. Yet the Commanders are actually self-assured those plays are going to happen regularly, as he comes to be much more comfy and also continues to establish." He is actually still developing," Quinn claimed. "I can not hang around to find who he's becoming.".