Jayden Daniels (born December 18, 2000) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

for the

LSU Tigers The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University (LSU), a state university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a ...

. Daniels previously played for the

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before transferring to LSU in 2022.

Early years

Daniels was born on December 18, 2000, in

San Bernardino, California San Bernardino (; Spanish for "Saint Bernardino") is a city and county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 cen ...

. He was a 4 star recruit out of

Cajon High School Cajon High School is located in the University District of San Bernardino, California, and is part of the San Bernardino City Unified School District. Academics Cajon High School is part of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB) incl ...

in California. He was ranked number two in the nation for dual-threat

College career

Arizona State

Daniels committed to Arizona State on December 13, 2018. He graduated early from Cajon in order to enroll at Arizona State in January 2019.

2019

As a freshman, Daniels beat out starter Dillon Sterling-Cole in training camp, making him the first starting true freshman quarterback for the Sun Devils.

LSU

In early 2022, Daniels announced he was transferring to

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(LSU) to play for the

. Jayden reinjured his ankle that had been injured during their game against

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on December 3, 2022, during the

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. He was listed as questionable, but he never returned because Garrett Nussmeier took his place.

Statistics

References

External links

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LSU Tigers bio

Arizona State Sun Devils bio
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