How does Jayden Daniels feel about Commanders' new offense?

Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels will play in a new offense in 2026. With Kliff Kingsbury gone as offensive coordinator, the Commanders replaced him with Daniels' former assistant quarterbacks coach, David Blough. The most significant change in Washington's new offense will feature more of Daniels playing under center, something he rarely did under Kingsbury.

>Blough has downplayed any significant changes for Daniels.

>"I think, you know, just trying to open his eyes maybe under center to some of the play action concepts and different things we want to stretch, you know, stretch people horizontally and vertically, and you know, it's, we're not creating essentially new concepts," Blough said last week. "Just asking them to do different things."

>What Blough is saying is that they're not trying to reinvent anything with this new offense. It's more about giving Daniels more options, which playing under center will do.

>As for Daniels, how is his transition going?

>"I still got a long way to go," Daniels said about the new offense. "I mean, we only just installed how many of our practices? I know we got a lot more to go, but [we] just built the foundation, man. You just continue to build off of it."

>Most quarterbacks would answer that things were going great. And maybe they are for Daniels, but that's exactly the answer you want to hear. He's acknowledging that there is plenty of work remaining for him to master Blough's offense.

>What about playing under center?

>"It's just giving different variations and variety, you know, different formations, run, play-action, either that's in the gun, you know, wide zone, inside zone, mid zone, things like that," Daniels said. "So, man, I would just open up a lot more things that we have to go out there and give, and then from there, you know, we just keep learning, keep building from there."

>Playing under center opens up everything for Daniels. It will also make him more dangerous as a runner. While playing out of the shotgun allows him to see things better pre-snap, playing under center is much more unpredictable. It's quite possible that Daniels will have more rushing yards and fewer designed runs in 2026.

>Daniels loved playing in Kliff Kingsbury's fast-break, no-huddle offense, but it's quite possible that he'll be even happier in Blough's offense moving forward.

>This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Washington Commanders: How is Jayden Daniels' offensive transition?