What's Jayden Daniels' Key To Year 2 Growth?

Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels had one of the best rookie seasons we've ever seen as he led the franchise to a 12-5 regular-season record while making it to the NFC Championship game.

As we have often seen with rookies who come in and light the league in first in Year 1, they can take a step back in Year 2 and suffer a "sophomore slump," something that C.J. Stroud suffered to an extent in his second season.

But there is a path to navigate around that and not have the rest of the NFL catch up to what you do and then get to work on how to stop you.

Ryan Porter, Daniels' quarterback coach since he was 11, has detailed how Jayden will look to get better in his second season.

"Everybody has a year of film on him so now they'll see different habits of what he does when he throws different [route] concepts," Porter said via ESPN. "It's a timing thing for him if he's able to throw the same route or concept from four different types of drops. You don't get a tip or indicator from him and it's just being able to play chess from the quarterback position where a lot of DBs are keying your drop or coordinators are keying your drop: 'When he's taking this drop, this is what he's throwing.' It's just to sharpen your tools."