Commanders / Draft / Draft 2024 / NFL
By Matt Stuart | Published | No Comments
It’s that time of year during the NFL off-season where every little move gets over analyzed and in many cases unnecessary drama builds because one player or agent of said player gets angry because of something the league or a team does or doesn’t do.
Last month several players that had a return trip scheduled to back to the NFL Combine in Indy, whined publicly that they had to fly coach. I know the horror.
This week it seems that somebody from LSU QB Jayden Daniels camp, more specifically his agent, has his underwear in a bunch over how the Washington Commanders chose to schedule and arrange the visits of four quarterback prospects that are all expected to go in the first round of next weeks draft in Detroit.
It seems that Daniel’s agent Ron Butler was a bit underwhelmed by the fact that his client Daniel’s was scheduled to meet with the Commanders front office on the same day and around the same time as three other quarterback prospects, including Drake Maye, J.J. McCarthy and Michael Penix Jr.
According to the Commanders GM Adam Peters, the visits were staggered throughout the day so that each player got a significant amount of time with the team. Peters remarked to the ESPN’s John Keim that it was “cool we got to see them all together in a group setting,”
“They all got a lot of time individually with coaches and with us. They were staggered coming in, too. It was a great blend of that and working everyone together in a fun environment.” Peters told ESPN.
But Butler apparently “liked” two posts on X (Twitter) that were critical of the move. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Daniels and his camp believed that they would be meeting with the team one on one.
In any event, I have often said that meeting with more than one prospective player is a smart move by a team. It allows the coaching staff, owner and general manager to be able to more accurately compare each player, since how they act and what they say will be so fresh on their minds, and not separated by days or even weeks, when overall impressions can be a bit harder to compare.
Daniels camp might not like the idea that the Commanders are still considering all their options at this late hour, but what the Commanders did and are doing is smart. And if the Commanders do in fact end up selecting Daniels second overall next week, we all know that all parties will be more than happy with that outcome.
