Colin Cowherd: “It was on the road – that’s always tougher, it was against Joe Burrow in a make-or-break game for Cincinnati. It was national TV and by the end of the game it was a stand-alone game. As an underdog the kid goes 21/23, 142 passer rating, three total touchdowns, and honestly looked brilliant. In back-to-back games Washington’s offense had no punts and no turnovers. Anybody else watch that game and kind of think to themselves ‘do we have a C.J. Stroud thing going on where the number two quarterback pick is way better than the number one pick?’...
Caleb Williams is a much better, stronger athlete than Bryce Young. He looks the part and he’s gotten gradually better. Usually coaches slow-play young quarterbacks and say ‘well, it’s a process’... You didn’t get that with Jayden Daniels. Dan Quinn was like ‘yeah, he’s kind of blowing us away.’ Kliff Kingsbury went to multiple podiums like ‘yeah, this kid does everything right.’... Usually, it’s the opposite with rookie quarterbacks. That’s what did they with Andrew Luck and Elway. Kingsbury and Dan Quinn couldn’t help themselves, and these aren’t rookie coaches over their skis.
If you look at Caleb and Jayden Daniels there are two things that are not disputable. Caleb is very inaccurate; Jayden is crazy accurate. It’s not close. Caleb is very turnover-prone and Jayden never turns the ball over. Those are BIG things. I mean, Stroud by his sixth game and Bryce Young by his third we were like ‘yeah, I’ve seen enough to know that that guy at two is going to be better than the guy at one.’ The one guy might get better and get a better coach, but the two guy is great now. You’re watching Jayden Daniels Monday night and it’s like ‘yeah, that’s all I need to see.’ They’re only going to get better on the offensive line and this is the start of it.
I think Caleb is much better than Bryce but it’s really hard to watch Jayden and watch Caleb and it’s not subtle or nuanced. It’s like ‘really accurate and not accurate’, ‘no turnovers and lots of turnovers’, ‘great judgement and not great judgement’... Like last year [with CJ Stroud and Bryce Young] it’s getting really wide, really quickly.”
Listen to Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports Radio’s The Herd explain why the 2024 NFL Draft class is looking eerily similar to the 2023 class, where the number two overall picks, C.J. Stroud and Jayden Daniels, ended up turning into much better rookie prospects than the number one overall picks, Bryce Young and Caleb Williams.
Check out the segment above as Colin details why he’s confident already anointing Daniels as the next big thing.
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