Washington Commanders quarterback Marcus Mariota was listed as a 'game manager' backup.
The Washington Commanders roster has been set and the team is preparing for their first test of their regular season when they head to Tampa Bay to take on the Buccaneers.
The Commanders did a great job of upheaving the roster from last year, with many new faces to boot, and are looking to turn their fortunes around sooner rather than later. The restructuring of the roster will hopefully pay dividends for the Commanders and a large part of how the team performs this upcoming season will lie on the shoulders of rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels.Daniels is a dual-threat quarterback who is electrifying with the ball in his hands, but since his collegiate days, he has shown a knack for putting himself into bad positions that ultimately could have led to serious injury.
Mariota hasn't been a regular starter in the league since he was with the Tennessee Titans, and outside of his one season in Atlanta back in 2022, and has mostly been relegated to an NFL backup. To most, Mariota seems like a solid, veteran leader as a backup, but according to a, they place him in the "game manager" tier of backup quarterbacks around the league with the likes of Cooper Rush, Mitchell Trubisky, Taylor Heinicke, Jarrett Stidham, and Josh Johnson.
Hopefully, for the Commanders they don't have to find out if Mariota still has it or not, but much of that will rely on how Jayden Daniels can keep himself clean and uninjured as the season progresses along.Caleb is from Nashville, TN, and graduated from Florida State University in 2018 with majors in Sociology and History. He has previously written for an FSU outlet and started covering the Buccaneers in March of 2022 while co-hosting the Hear the Cannons podcast.
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