Days before the 2024 NFL Draft, the favorite to select with the No. 2 overall pick to the Washington Commanders is LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels. That’s what makes a recent development with Daniels’ agent, Ron Butler of Agency 1 Athlete Management Group, so interesting.
Wednesday, Pro Football Talk critical Commanders for bringing in four top quarterback prospects for a group visit, rather than bringing them each individually, saying the team was diluting its ability to maximize its time with each prospect. Later that evening, Butler replied on Twitter, responding to the PFT tweet with a “thinking face” emoji.
According to USA Today’s Commanders Wire, Butler also liked two articles criticizing Washington’s process, including one that said, “How many companies are doing this?” Who the fuck cares how they interact with players they’ll never play with? This doesn’t make sense to me. »
Friday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter seemed to confirm that things were not going well with Butler.
“This didn’t seem to go down very well with Jayden Daniels’ agent, Ron Butler, who said on social media last night that he didn’t seem particularly happy with the process,” Schefter said on “Get Up” . “I think Jayden Daniels thought it would be a visit with just him to meet with the commanders. A lot of people think Jayden Daniels will end up being the second overall pick. But the commanders have basically opened up the process.”
This is all the more interesting because on Thursday, Commanders general manager Adam Peters indicated that the team felt that bringing together four quarterbacks – Daniels, North Carolina’s Drake Maye, Michigan’s JJ McCarthy and Michael Penix from Washington – was a positive for their evaluation process.
“The cool thing is we get to see them all together as a group,” Peters said. via ESPN. “They all spent a lot of time individually with the coaches and with us. They were also staggered when they came in. It was a good mix of that and working together in a fun environment.”
We don’t yet know if or how this apparent disconnect between the commanders and Daniels’ agent will affect the team’s decision-making when it comes to the No. 2 pick, but having even a small clue thrown into things this late in the process is a fascinating development.