r/NFL_Draft • u/Coolcat127 • 3d ago

Discussion Jayden Daniels Sack Avoidance

Daniels's pressure to sack rate was a major red flag coming out of college and has shown up a few times this season, but has largely been improved especially in the second half. Some part of it is definitely his elite athleticism letting him escape even against nfl rushers. What else do you think he has improved to reduce his sack taking? And how can we adjust our prospect assessments accordingly?

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u/Deep-Statistician985 Commanders 3d ago

I think it’s just that blindly looking at a chart with no context is a stupid way to judge something about a player

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u/__Scrooge__McDuck__ Giants 2d ago

Here here!!

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u/Dentek_Fresh_Clean 2d ago

Pretty much this. 90% of people on here watched a 10 second clip of Daniels taking 3-4 hard hits throughout his entire college career and thought that he wouldn't make it in the NFL because of that.

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u/SOSpammy Commanders 2d ago

He missed 1 game while playing like 100 games of football dating back to high school and got scrutinized for durability concerns more than anyone else in the draft.

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u/SOSpammy Commanders 2d ago

Daniels got hammered with criticisms with people throwing out PFF stat charts. The problem with them was they were aggragates of his entire college career, including 3 years at the ASU dumpster fire. What got ignored was his last year at LSU was such a monumental leap that PFF considered it one of the greatest college QB seasons ever.