No college prospect is ready to play in the NFL the day after the NFL Draft — no matter how talented, how experienced at the college level, or how “NFL-like” the scheme was at the college level.
Playing, and especially starting, at the NFL level requires growth from all prospects.. Some require a lot, sometimes years of development, while others can make the jump quicker than that.
Not every quarterback with upside can approach self-actualization of their unique abilities. We’ve seen plenty of remarkably talented quarterbacks enter the league in the last few years, but upside without signs that the ceiling will be reached is more like gambling than projecting.
For many of those first-round failures, assuming they could reach their ceiling was optimistic. But for Jayden Daniels, he has given every reason to believe he’ll be a quarterback whose upside is not only attainable, but expected based on how far he’s come.
Daniels showcased his athletic and physical gifts at Arizona State and then in his first season at LSU, and his elusiveness, natural ability to improvise and arm talent shined in the Pac-12 and in year one in the SEC. But even the most bullish evaluators on Daniels didn’t predict that he would make the seismic leap toward reaching his previously untapped potential in just one offseason.
Over the past 20 years, only one other quarterback has seen similar substantial development year over year: fellow LSU alum Joe Burrow.
Burrow and Daniels are the only two quarterbacks in the last 20 years (minimum 400 drop backs) that increased their adjusted…
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