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25 in 2025: Jayden Daniels and the Commanders’ support system will change the NFL

Each practice day, right around 6 a.m., Jayden Daniels’ phone rings.

Kliff Kingsbury is calling.

The Washington Commanders offensive coordinator is not placing a long-distance call.

Instead, Kingsbury calls his quarterback from the same indoor practice field at the same line of scrimmage. Kingsbury delivers a play-call to Daniels via headphones and awaits quarterbacks coach Tavita Pritchard snapping the ball in one hand while holding the day’s practice script in his other.

Kingsbury releases off the line of scrimmage, playing the role of Daniels’ receiver while continuing the conversation by phone.

“I’m talking to him as I’m running the route, saying, ‘Hey, if I

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