Jayden Daniels Has The Perfect Approach To Becoming Face Of Washington Commanders Franchise

If you need perspective, let's remember that Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy. And was selected by the Washington Commanders with the No. 2 overall pick in the April draft. And he's been making the rounds around the Nation's Capitol, throwing out the first pitch at a Nationals game and hanging out as a VIP with the Team USA soccer team.

Oh, yes, and he's the new face of a team desperately wanting to reshape its identity both on and off the field.

So how's that stardom fitting Jayden Daniels? 

NEW YORK - Quarterback Jayden Daniels of the LSU Tigers poses with The Heisman Memorial Trophy at New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on December 9, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

"I mean, I ain’t a star quarterback yet. I got a long way to go," Daniels told reporters Wednesday afternoon as the Commanders continued their mandatory minicamp. "I'm a rookie, to answer that. 

"But, just coming out here and just being able to experience different things. That was my first time throwing out a first pitch, that was my first time going to the soccer game and just seeing the atmosphere and seeing different sports. 

"And to be able to just go out there and support them, coming into a new town, a new community and be able to go out there and support and showing them love, so when our season comes around the players at the Nationals game or people on Team USA for soccer want to come to a game, they can and they can come show love too."

And this answer is, well, perfect. 

It shows that regardless whether the Commanders have a player that is going to light up the scoreboard this year or turn the thing around for an embattled franchise, the kid's got the right perspective.

Zero entitlement.

Zero pretension.

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