Undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels secured the number two QB spot 'The NFL Report'
Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie quarterback, Jalon Daniels, has earned the number two quarterback spot behind Baker Mayfield on "The NFL Report."
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The door.
There was no draft premium on Jalen Daniels.
The kid out of LA who played for six years at K State has made the Buccaneers as the number two quarterback to Baker Mayfield.
Kansas, beg your pardon, not K State.
He signed for only $25,000, Trevor, as an undrafted free agent.
If you ever turned on Jayhawk Football, he was always fun to watch.
Did you think, however, that he'd be a legit QB2 and this fast?
I didn't know if that would happen now, but certainly if you wanna turn back the clock two, three years ago, yes.
I would have told you that when we were watching Jalen Daniels as a sophomore, a junior, when he was at Kansas, he was lighting up scoreboards.
He was all over the field.
He was making incredible plays out of broken plays and, and when things would go wrong, he was always able to fix it.
Yeah, he's a smaller quarterback, but he had the arm strength to make up for it.
The big issue with him, Andrew, is just the back injury.
The back injuries and other injuries that he dealt with over the last couple of seasons.
And unfortunately, I wondered if, certainly with him going undrafted, I wondered if it was like, man, ah, is this just a story of a player who was really talented who the injury bug bit him too hard by the time he got to the NFL?
Clearly not the case.
Love the fact that he's still able to showcase that talent.
Love that it's still there.
Love that Tampa kept him as their QB2.
Yeah, absolutely.
Look, plenty of undrafted free agents who sign for, for mere pennies comparatively speaking make the team.
That, that's the way this league works.
It's what makes this league so much fun and so great.
But for one of those guys to be a quarterback for 25,000 and to be the number two, not the number three, is just nuts.
And keeping four is kind of the rage.
Now, the Vikings, I mentioned earlier, have already moved on from Max Brosmer, maybe back to the practice squad.
Brosmer stuck around and played a little bit last year.
But Atlanta, and Minnesota, and Pittsburgh, and surprisingly Philadelphia all kept four initially.
Four quarterbacks, most-
