March 27, 2024 6: 26 pm ET
Late next month, former LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels will likely be one of the first players selected near the top of the 2024 NFL Draft. In fact, given a continued (almost desperate) dearth of quality potential franchise quarterbacks in the league, it’s unlikely Daniels will last past the top-5 draft slots. But as the draft microscope intensifies on the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner (and his LSU teammates), an unusual photo has resurfaced that somehow everyone missed the first time.
It features Daniels in a throwing motion during an early November game against Alabama in the past college football season. But something doesn’t seem quite right in the picture, as Daniels’ elbow on his throwing arm doesn’t look the way you’d expect.
The initial fervor about it appears to have arisen because this is the photo that NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport chose to use while talking about Daniels’ upcoming individual draft meetings with teams:
OK, there’s a lot to unpack here before we let wild conclusions run amok.
While, yes, Daniels’ elbow does look curious in this specific photo, it could be attributed to weird lighting and the ca