Lauren to the bottom of the screen. Second and goal. Ten seconds. Daniels fires. Inzo! Touchdown!

Jameson Crowder! Preposterous! Five turnovers and the lead with seconds remaining.

Yeah, that was the masterpiece last year, the comeback against Philadelphia, and it was,

you know, a masterpiece, as I've said before, that had imperfections because he threw a bad

interception in the fourth quarter. But to overcome five turnovers against a team on a 10-game

winning streak with clearly in that moment the

best defense in the NFL to score 36 points and beat them 3633. He was just amazing. Although,

truth be told, the next game against Atlanta, what he did in that second half and in that

overtime almost exceeded it.

Jayden Daniels had by some metrics, some measurements, more than most, the greatest rookie

season by a quarterback in NFL history.

Pro Football reference has something they call approximate value.

It's an AV number that's assigned to every player in every player's season.

It's an attempt to attach a single number to every player's season since 1960 based on a lot of

different criteria. And Jaden's last year, his AV was 20. That's first out of 132 rookie

quarterbacks since 1960 that played and started as a rookie. Second on that list is

Cam Newton, who's 2011 season. He had a 19. But you're talking about, you know, Jaden

Daniels, along with Newton, Russ Wilson, Dak Prescott, RG3. Those are really among the greatest

rookie seasons of all time. C.J. Stroud had an excellent rookie season as well. We know that

he was just the sixth rookie quarterback in NFL history to lead his team to a conference

championship game. But the others, to be fair, Sean King in 1999, Ben Rafflesberger in 2004,

Flacco in 2008, Sanchez in 2009, and Brock Purdy in 2022, were leading great all-around teams that were for the most part

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