It's rare for an NFL team to have a Super Bowl-winning player on its executive staff who also mentors the team's rookie quarterback, but that's exactly what Doug Williams has done with Jayden Daniels.
When Jayden Daniels showed up for his first preseason game with the Washington Commanders, he wore a Doug Williams no. 17 throwback jersey. That’s when his team should have known it had something special in its rookie quarterback.
Washington Commanders' Daniels could become the first rookie quarterback to play the Super Bowl. Williams, who led the team to a Super Bowl win, says talented Black QBs are finally getting their due.
Jayden Daniels is about to play the game of his life, and former Washington quarterback Doug Williams can relate. He's has served as Senior Advisor to the team and Daniels this season.
Jayden Daniels ran out of time for another comeback. Daniels finished with 255 yards passing with a touchdown and an interception and was sacked three times.
Jayden Daniels didn’t notice ... no matter the circumstance. Doug Williams, the in-house legend and personnel executive, has been saying something similar since Week 1. Daniels is that guy ...
Would Bears fans rather have Williams for the next 10 years or one of the other rookie QBs from the ballyhooed 2024 draft class?
For most rookie quarterbacks, the pressure of leading a team - it can leave them frazzled. But Jayden Daniels is not like most quarterbacks.
Yet, that was not Washington's first Super Bowl victory. In 1983, the team pulled off a shocking upset as Gibbs and quarterback Joe Theismann defeated Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins 27-17. Down 17-10 at halftime, Washington held Miami to 176 total yards and zero second-half points.
Jayden Daniels went from being a draft afterthought to the second pick. After his breakout rookie season, why wasn't he taken first?
Sonny Jurgensen is 90 and his health is declining, but Jayden Daniels has been giving ... Five years later in the 1987 season, Doug Williams was the quarterback when Washington defeated the ...
The NFL’s conference championships Sunday marked a second straight week of playoff action that proved largely unkind to the league’s strong LSU contingent. Philadelphia emphatically halted the historic rookie season of rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels and his Washington squad,