Jayden Daniels

CTL-E-5966 · Person · other · 2000–present

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Combined Graph record U-07202 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5966.

Jayden Daniels, born 18 December 2000 in Fontana, California, is an American professional football quarterback for the Washington Commanders. He began his college career at Arizona State, starting for three seasons, then transferred to LSU, where his second season, in 2023, became one of the most productive in college football history. At LSU he threw for 3,812 yards and 40 touchdowns against four interceptions and ran for 1,134 yards and ten more scores, leading the nation in total offense and winning the Heisman Trophy, the Davey O'Brien Award and AP Player of the Year. Washington drafted him second overall in 2024. As a rookie he set several rookie records, won NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, made the Pro Bowl and led Washington to its first NFC Championship Game appearance since the 1991 season. Injuries interrupted his 2025 campaign and the start of 2026, including a dislocated left elbow in Week 2, but he returned to start in October 2026, in his third NFL season.

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• Also known as: Jayden Daniels (quarterback)

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 10; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jayden Daniels entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5966 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1075 (Football Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American professional football quarterback; Arizona State and LSU Heisman winner now with Washington. Vital status: LIVING — Washington starting quarterback in the 11 Oct 2026 game against the New York Giants (17/25, 199 yd passing; 103 rushing yards, 2 rushing TD) and full participant in practice 15 Oct 2026 (USA TODAY / Sportsnet / FanDuel, Oct 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Career NFL statistics as of Week 5, 2026: 5,289 passing yards, 36 TD–12 INT, 66.0% completions, 1,372 rushing yards and 10 rushing TD (Wikipedia / Pro Football Reference, accessed 2026-10-16); 2023 at LSU: 3,812 passing yards, 40 TD, 1,134 rushing yards (Heisman Trophy Trust). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons photograph of Jayden Daniels with the Washington Commanders in 2025; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5966-jayden-daniels.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Heisman Trophy Trust, heisman.com, 'Jayden Daniels of LSU Wins 2023 Heisman Trophy' (9 Dec 2023) — LSU's third Heisman winner; 3,812 passing yards, 40 TD, 4 INT, 1,134 rushing yards, 10 rushing TD; nation-leading 4,946 total yards and 208.0 passer rating — https://heisman.com/articles/jayden-daniels-of-lsu-wins-2023-heisman-trophy/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Jayden Daniels' — born 18 December 2000, Fontana, California; Arizona State (2019–2021) and LSU (2022–2023); drafted 2nd overall by Washington in 2024; NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (2024) and Pro Bowl; career NFL statistics as of Week 5, 2026 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayden_Daniels (build store)
• Associated Press via Sportsnet, 'Jayden Daniels, Commanders try to put disheartening tie behind them as unbeaten 49ers loom' (Oct 2026) — Daniels spoke to reporters Thursday after Washington's 27–27 tie with the New York Giants on 11 Oct 2026; in his third season — https://www.sportsnet.ca/nfl/article/jayden-daniels-commanders-try-to-put-disheartening-tie-behind-them-as-unbeaten-49ers-loom/ (build store)
• USA TODAY, 'Is Jayden Daniels playing today? Update on Commanders QB's injured elbow' (11 Oct 2026) — head coach Dan Quinn confirmed 9 Oct that Daniels was back for Washington after dislocating his left elbow in Week 2 — https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/commanders/2026/10/11/jayden-daniels-injury-update-starting-qb-status-commanders-giants/92177047007/ (build store)

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