The good news from Wednesday's scrimmage was the play of Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels. Grant Paulsen of 106.7 The Fan was present at the workouts and was quite full of praise for Daniels. Daniels is needing to learn how to play under center for the first time in his playing career. Paulsen was exuberant and effusive with praise for Daniels' play in Wednesday's scrimmage.
Jayden Daniels ---> Treylon Burks TD bombpic.twitter.com/got2iddFZR — COMMANDERS FOOTBALL (@HogsHaven) August 12, 2026 Here is how Paulsen described what he saw from Daniels on Wednesday.
"I would be surprised if he played against the Dolphins" (Friday). He threw 16 passes in 11 on 11 work today. I had him at 12 of 16 (completed)." "Man, was he sharp. He looked so good under center in play action. I don't know if this is going to be the way the offense looks all of the time, or if this was just what they were working on today. I can't tell you how many times he was under center, running a boot play action, throwing on the move, doing it beautifully and with touch." "He was layering throws over linebackers over the tops of hands into the second level, intermediate and deep. He hit on some long passes. In my notes today I had a Van Jefferson toe tap on the sideline dime, probably 25 yards down field. Terry McLaurin caught a ball 30 yards downfield, got his feet in along the sideline. Daniels hit Treylon Burks on a deep corner route, behind everybody for the Dolphins, for what would have been a 30-yard-plus completion." "He was super accurate. Four incompletions. One was a batted ball at the line in the read zone. One was a bad ball to Luke McCaffrey, which was the only super inaccurate pass in his 16 throws. Then there were two pretty well-covered PBUs (pass break-ups), where he (Daniels) was dropping the ball in the bucket." "I'm not trying to oversell this. I'm even trying to calm myself down a little bit as I watched it today because I don't think the Dolphins are going to be good. I'm going to keep saying that over and over and over again. But Daniels has surpassed even my most optimistic hopes for how he would look running this offense. He just looks like he's been doing it for a long time."
The Commanders and Dolphins will kick off their preseason schedule Friday at 7 pm at Northwest Stadium in Landover. This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Commanders QB Jayden Daniels 'sharp' in Dolphins' scrimmage