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Colin Cowherd Already Knows Who'll Be NFL's Next Superstar

Originally posted on The Spun | By Chris Rosvoglou | Last updated Jun 27, 2025 11:09 PM ET

Colin Cowherd isn't waiting until Week 1 to name the NFL's next superstar.

During Thursday's edition of "The Herd" on FS1, Colin Cowherd named the most "untradeable" athletes in sports. Unsurprisingly, Buffalo Bills star Josh Allen and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes cracked his top seven.

Believe it or not, Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was the third football player to crack Cowherd's list. Not only did he rave about the former No. 2 pick, he said he's the NFL's next superstar.

"I think he's our next superstar in the NFL," Cowherd said. "I thought last year was the greatest rookie season by far. He took over a franchise that was a laughingstock for 15-20 years. Relevance, maturity, arm, movement - to the nation's capital. There's an argument they're going to become Kansas City in the NFC."

It's hard to argue against Cowherd's comments. Daniels threw for 3,568 yards with 25 touchdowns and nine interceptions during his rookie season. The LSU product also had 891 yards and six scores on the ground.

A month ago, Commanders head coach Dan Quinn let the NFL world know that Daniels is working awfully hard to take his game to another level this fall.

"There is no flinch in Jayden Daniels," Quinn told reporters. "He’s an absolute like, as focused and relentless as you could about getting better. And so that’s why I said for us around here, man, we appreciate that and there’s a lot of things that he and the rest of us are really digging in hard on to say, all right, can we get this better? And if he does that, I do that, others do that … there’s a lot of space we can get better at."

If Daniels takes that next step during his sophomore season, Cowherd will get to take a victory lap at some point in the next year.

This article first appeared on The Spun and was syndicated with permission.

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