Jayden Daniels-QB-ASU

Every time I watched Aiyuk with ASU, I was like "This QB could be something in our offense. He´s not perfect but he´s a heck of a player".
Honestly, Daniels impresses me a lot more than some others more hyped QBs for next year.

Kid will make some team very happy next draft

Anyone notice who Aiyuk roasted on the long TD pass vs Oregon?

I like this kid. I just hope he is able to gain weight cause he is pretty slim.

Originally posted by gold49digger:
I like this kid. I just hope he is able to gain weight cause he is pretty slim.

That is definitely a concern, he's super light, around 180 or something like that while standing 6'1. He could stand to gain 10-15 pounds.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
That is definitely a concern, he's super light, around 180 or something like that while standing 6'1. He could stand to gain 10-15 pounds.

Jayden is listed 6'3

He's currently at 190 per Herm Edwards (as of Spring 2021 practice). With his frame, 200 is probably the max. Should be noted he is a bit younger and would be a 21-year old at the start of the 22-23 football season (December birthdate). Most December born athletes would have started school later as a young kid.

He was the #3 ranked QB in the 2019 highschool class, about the same highschool scouting grade as Tua Tagoviola. So it's not like Daniels is coming out of nowhere, he was very highly regarded highschool QB despite most December birth dates would have been in the next year.

Strengths:
-Protects the ball, rarely ever throws a pick (3 int in 422 pass attempts, which goes back to his highschool days (4 int in 406 attempts senior year).
-excellent deep ball touch and ball placement
-Has the athleticism to be a good scrambling QB in the NFL, but is still a pocket-passer (but he will not be a running threat in NFL, just a guy that scrambles for a 1st)
-Very calm demeanor, does not get rattled. Has lead game winning drives very early in his career
-Able to throw on the run
-Has a high release point in this throwing motion
-Throws anticipatory throws
-Developing in an NFL-like offense
-quick agile feet, good throwing form and motion
-Has the arm strength to make all NFL throws

Weaknesses:
-Is a tempo passer with his accuracy, there are streaks where his accuracy suffers
-Developed happy feet in 2020 and left the pocket prematurely at times
-Struggled to get comfortable in new offense in 2020
-Tends to cut his the field in half rather than scan full field

He had a new OC in 2020 and a lot of freshman WRs that dropped balls/ran bad routes. He tends to play 3Q of football as a game manager before he gets the green light to take more chances in the 4th. Herm Edwards has said the "training wheels" are coming off and he will be given the green light to take more chances this year, but ASU will likely be a run-first offense with how 2020 went. HE has also said he views ASU's D as the strength, so I still think JD will play a lot of game-management protect the ball football.

Also the ASU roster should be on a lot of armchair scouts radars. A lot of prospects including:

QB Daniels*
RB White
LT Diesch
C/OG West*

DE Johnson
DT Lole
LB Robertson
CB Lucas
CB Jones
S Fields

Alot of people in this board were slamming Zach Wilson for being scrawny. I feel Jayden Daniels is similar in build.

He looked great his freshman year, especially the comeback wins against MSU.

I wasn't impressed with him last year. He looked very ordinary in comparison to his Freshman year. At the time, I kept thinking was this because of losing Eno Benjamin and Brandon Aiyuk.

He needs a bounce back year this year. We will see how it goes.

Arizona biased... pass

Originally posted by asu49ers:
Alot of people in this board were slamming Zach Wilson for being scrawny. I feel Jayden Daniels is similar in build.

He looked great his freshman year, especially the comeback wins against MSU.

I wasn't impressed with him last year. He looked very ordinary in comparison to his Freshman year. At the time, I kept thinking was this because of losing Eno Benjamin and Brandon Aiyuk.

He needs a bounce back year this year. We will see how it goes.

Being scrawny is one thing, being scrawny with an injury history is another. But your point isnt lost on me.

Just unsure why post a QB when Lance is the future..

Originally posted by jersey49er:
Just unsure why post a QB when Lance is the future..

The OP is a fan of his game, what's wrong with that?

Dude skinny as hell needs to put on more weight