ASU football quarterback Jayden Daniels inspired many others in its first season, leading her to pre-season awards before her time-out season at Tempe.
But on a bachelor website.
Pro Football Focus recently launched its pre-season 2020 All-Pac-12 football team and Daniels is not part of the first team.
Neither he nor the third.
He also did not receive an honorable mention.
The Kedon Slovis of usC received the first team’s honors.
Grant Gunnell of Arizona was named quarterback of the team at the time, while Chase Garbers of California was the third team selected.
Honorable mention went to Utah’s Jake Bentley.
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Some would possibly understand this as a major disadvantage for Daniels, as other sites are listed as the first quarterback or the most productive pac-12 moment at the start of the season.
But Pro Football Focus will never be superior to Daniels.
Daniels threw nearly 3,000 yards, 17 touchdowns and just two novices, however, placed him at number 7 among Pac-12 quarterbacks by 2020 before this month.
Yes, not 7.
Slovis, Gunnell, Garbers and Bentley were the first four selections, with Tyler Shough of Oregon fifth and Dalton Mills sixth at Stanford.
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Pro Football Focus ranked Daniels ranked 63rd out of 130 FBS quarterbacks in his ranking.
Anthony Treash wrote about Daniels in the ranking: “Daniels is a skilled resolution creator as a smuggler, which is not unusual for a student of a genuine year. But the big fear, and the explanation for why we’re not positive about your 2020, is that 17% of your passes in 2019 resulted in a QB failure. Daniels’ accuracy is well below average, but the herbal ability is there.”
In January, Pro Football Focus named Daniels the least passer-by of the Pac-12.
At the time, he ranked 72th among the school’s field marshals.
Yes, no 72.
Arizona quarterbacks last season, Khalil Tate and Grant Gunnell, ranked 25th on that list.
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Several other sites are well above Daniels in their school football quarterbacks rankings, appearing in the Top 10 in several of them.
Brad Crawford of 247 Sports projected that Daniels would be next season’s fifth-best school quarterback.
He wrote: “Project here, however, Arizona State’s most productive player has the chance to be the most productive player on the West Coast and one of the most impressive players in the country if it progresses as Sun Devils coach Herm Edwards hopes.” (I said I’ll build it around you now,” Edwards told Daniels 247Sports.” You’ve earned my trust. We want to locate them, guys who can help us both on the perimeter and in the back box. Array and I think we want to consolidate the offensive line for you. No school football quarterback has led more winning records than Daniels last season and did so with ice in his veins like a true new student. Daniels throws a catchable ball and showed impressive accuracy in the box when the Sun Devils took risks.”
It’s pretty far-fetched how you can have Daniels as the fifth most productive quarterback in all of school football, while others place him in seventh place among Pac-12 quarterbacks.
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