{"id":239532,"date":"2025-09-19T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239532\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:27:14","slug":"commanders-qb-jayden-daniels-out-vs-raiders-with-knee-sprain-marcus-mariota-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239532\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders QB Jayden Daniels out vs. Raiders with knee sprain; Marcus Mariota to start"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASHBURN, Va. \u2014\u00a0The Washington Commanders ruled out quarterback Jayden Daniels for Sunday\u2019s game against the Las Vegas Raiders because of a knee sprain. Marcus Mariota will start in his place, and Josh Johnson will be Mariota\u2019s backup.<\/p>\n

The Commanders treated this week much like they handled Week 8 last season, after Daniels suffered a rib injury and was uncertain to suit up against the Chicago Bears. He missed two practices and was listed as limited the Friday before the game, despite not appearing on the field during the media-viewing portion of practice.<\/p>\n

Mariota prepared with the first-team offense throughout the week, but hours before kickoff, coach Dan Quinn announced that Daniels would start. He, of course, went on to throw a Hail Mary touchdown pass to Noah Brown for the win.<\/p>\n

Daniels suffered his latest injury<\/a> on a fourth-quarter scramble during Washington\u2019s Week 2 loss in Green Bay. He stayed in for the entirety of the game, but often reached for his knee after getting tackled. He hobbled to the line of scrimmage after one hit, then waved off Washington\u2019s sideline to indicate he wasn\u2019t coming out. He went on to throw two touchdowns after suffering the injury.<\/p>\n

In the locker room after the game, Daniels had an ice pack wrapped around his knee and was noticeably limping. When asked how he felt after sustaining 10 hits in the game, Daniels told reporters he was \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n

An MRI taken the next day, however, confirmed a sprain, and Quinn described the quarterback as \u201ctruly day to day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did not practice Wednesday or Thursday, and was not on the field during the media-viewing portion of Friday\u2019s on-field workout. He did throw some on Wednesday, according to Quinn, but was not a participant during the team\u2019s most intense workouts of the week (Fridays are typically shorter, non-padded practices). Mariota took the first-team reps in his absence, while Johnson prepped to potentially be the backup.<\/p>\n

Daniels was, however, as involved as usual in team meetings and general game prep, and made multiple appearances in the locker room, wearing a large brace around his left knee.<\/p>\n

Quinn has said that Daniels needed to hit \u201call of his markers\u201d in the return-to-play protocol the coaches and medical staff set out for him to ensure he has the leg strength and ability to change direction as needed, among other things.<\/p>\n

Practicing with the team in some capacity was also a requirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will just kind of go through the whole process with him and we\u2019re not going to miss it either,\u201d Quinn said Monday. \u201cWith Jayden, we know how important he is and so we\u2019re just going to kind of take it (slowly). That\u2019s why I truly say it\u2019s day by day to make sure that he can absolutely be himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the uncertainty, Raiders coach Pete Carroll indicated earlier this week that he was expecting Daniels to get the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we have to prepare for him playing, and the bet is probably that he will,\u201d Carroll told Las Vegas media on Wednesday. \u201cThey might not practice him until later in the week, but we\u2019re going to count him going. \u2026 We have a lot of background about Marcus on the staff and all that, so we know what his capabilities are, we think, and so we\u2019re playing for both guys, but primarily for Jayden.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story is developing and will be updated.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Patrick McDermott \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHBURN, Va. \u2014\u00a0The Washington Commanders ruled out quarterback Jayden Daniels for Sunday\u2019s game against the Las Vegas Raiders…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29287,51,50,1232,52,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-239532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fantasy-football","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115232377702425280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}