In the second quarter of Sunday’s Cleveland Browns–Washington Commanders game, Jayden Daniels took a critical fourth-down snap just inside midfield in a one-score game. He dropped seven steps from the shotgun, taking him 10 total yards from the first-down marker, and turned to see Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah screaming toward him, totally unblocked.
Owusu-Koramoah is one of the fastest hybrid defensive players in the NFL and an excellent open-field tackler, but with a shake of Daniels’s hips, the Browns’ linebacker went airborne and sideways, looking a bit like a kid ejected from one of those metal playground carousels. Daniels picked up the first down and kept going, advancing nearly 34 yards past the marker on a play that, one could argue, rendered the already lifeless Browns out of striking distance.
