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.
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.
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.
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.
The rookie QB has made an impression on some of the team's most respected players of the past and restored hope to a starved franchise.
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.
Nothing about Saturday's game against the Lions could make Jayden Daniels flinched, and the Commanders' rookie QB delivered a stunning upset win.
The Detroit Lions are heavy favorites to beat the Washington Commanders in the divisional round, but Jayden Daniels could have something to say about that, writes .
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 ...
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,
It has reconnected me, reconnected an entire generation really, to the joy and sense of community we feared might never return.
The Washington Commanders' unexpected run to the NFC championship game has rekindled the long-forgotten passion of a notoriously put-upon fan base.