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Jayden Daniels has been a big topic of discussion for fans of the Washington Commanders and the NFL overall since his breakout rookie season, but does he still have that same respect going into his third season? Kevin Sheehan and Producer Max give their list for the top five players in the NFC East division going into the NFL season.
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00:00let me just tell you something i got like seven versions right now of a top five
00:06i had a couple early and i've crossed those out i've talked myself into and out of about six or
00:14seven different players it's it's an impossible process that we're doing right now this is much
00:19harder than it was last year much harder because last year when we did our best five nfc east
00:26players like saquon barkley was a given right yeah it made it much easier dexter lawrence and jaylen
00:34carter were givens malik neighbors i think i mean i know it was a stretch for some
00:40and jayden was certainly had to be in the conversation
00:46there are no less than 15 players that could be in this top five so this is really subjective
00:55and you know part of it for me is taking like the importance of the position because i'm going to
01:01tell you right now i i think dax good like i think he's a really good quarterback a really good
01:10quarterback but i didn't have him anywhere near my top five and i wouldn't have had him anywhere near
01:16jayden daniels last year and if jayden daniels actually plays football which he didn't do last
01:22year i expect him to be the best quarterback in the division i do dac to be the second best
01:30quarterback in the division followed by jaylen hurts and then i think jackson darts way down the list
01:39so
01:41i still have jayden in my top five and that's going to upset people
01:48so here you go are you ready i'm just gonna this is this is subject to change
01:56god so many i i mean the offensive linemen that you could go with in your top five
02:03i mean lane johnson laramie tunsel andrew thomas tyler smith you know i looked this up
02:11when we were putting this thing together earlier uh in in the morning um tyler smith was ranked the
02:17number one guard in the nfl by on that espn top 10 list number one guard in the nfl i
02:25knew he was good
02:26and i considered dallas's offensive line like philly's offensive line to be good
02:30i had forgotten that tyler smith was the number one guard
02:35in the nfl but i'm not putting him in my top five here we go you ready
02:42this is also what i think is going to happen in 2026 in terms of the performances of these players
02:50number five on my list is quinyon mitchell i think you can easily make the case he is the best
02:57corner
02:57in the division right now hands down the best corner in the division do you have a debate with
03:05anybody else i don't think so uh of the corners ranked in that espn top 10 list he was the
03:11only
03:11one oh no you you reminded me cooper de jean was 10 right yeah cooper de jean was 10 quinyon
03:18mitchell's
03:19number five for me number four yes there's a bit of homer in this but i also expect that by
03:28the end
03:29of the season it's going to be like man are you sure he's four he might be three or two
03:34in the division
03:37jayden daniels is number four for me sorry last year was an injury year it wasn't a regression year
03:44he didn't play football he played four games start to finish
03:50jayden daniels number four i'm sorry but i still think in terms of the actual overall defensive
03:58upside in terms of what this player can be he got paid obviously the eagles still believe in him
04:06and some eagles fans will tell you jordan davis was more reliable no defensive player in the
04:13division can dominate a game the way jayden carter can he's number three on my list
04:23number two on my list and this may be a reach and you're going to say are you kidding me
04:29you've got
04:29him on the list before cd lamb you've got him on the list before pickens terry yeah because he
04:40was reportedly looking really good health wise last week i had him in my top five last year
04:49because i saw the next truly elite superstar wide receiver in the league and i think we're going to
04:59see that in his third season health is everything with this player coming off a serious injury last
05:05year but malik neighbors if he is healthy he might end up being the best player in the division hands
05:12down now the quarterback is going to have to deliver but even with the the bad quarterbacking
05:19that they had with russell wilson and others in his rookie year he was dominant dominant coming off that
05:27injury season he was still the first player i think on that honorable mention on the receiver list
05:35malik neighbors is an insane talent insane as a rookie with who were the quarterbacks that year
05:44in new york russell wilson was it tommy devito who else quarterback for the giants that year
05:50jamis winston he had 109 catches in 15 games
05:58for 1204 yards and seven touchdowns as a rookie
06:05malik neighbors is number one is number two excuse me and then number one and i'm gonna regret doing
06:13this i i i can feel it coming already but he was your number one he was a lot of
06:20people's number ones
06:21last year and look his season last year i think the whole philadelphia season was just a little bit
06:29derailed by some of the issues they had clearly with aj brown and others um but i could see a
06:37massive
06:37bounce back season in a sean manion offense which we'll have with that offensive line in front of
06:45them nice stretch zone outside inside zone runs saquon barkley's number one on my list
06:54of nfc east players i'm looking at my other lists on some of my other top fives fives i don't
07:01have
07:01three of the top five three of my top five even in it it's never changing on mitchell at five
07:07jaden
07:08daniels at four jalen carter at three malik neighbors at two and saquon barkley at one
07:14again it is right now and what i think it will be in 2026
07:21the player that i'm most confident about if he's healthy on this list is neighbors
07:26even with the quarterbacking he's just he's different
07:34go ahead give me your top five so the thing on neighbors i'm worried about
07:37his knee so he didn't make i know it's just the videos last week they said he looked really really
07:44sharp i'll believe them until i won't but okay my number five um we're gonna start with a couple
07:53offensive linemen because i i feel like they they deserve a little bit more credit um tyler
07:58smith is gonna be my five um one of the best interior uh offensive linemen in the past couple
08:04years i mean espn and gms and all that had him ranked above quentin nelson which to me means a
08:10lot
08:10because i like quentin nelson in his game quite a bit so he's gonna be my five number four jordan
08:16my lotta i think he's the best left tackle in the division sorry laramie tunsel yeah i i my lotta
08:22lane johnson getting older and tunsel those are the three best tackles in the division and i i
08:28struggled with that because on one of my lists i have i have two tackles and a guard on one
08:33of my
08:33list i have smith my lotta and tunsel all in my top five and then i took him out of
08:39my last top five
08:40because i just went with yeah all right i can't argue my lot is great really good number three um
08:48this
08:48guy had a little bit of a he didn't even have i don't think he had the best receiving season
08:52on
08:53his own team uh this past year but i think he's gonna have a big one this year uh it
08:57is not george
08:58pickens it is cd lamb he will be my three now i there were a couple times where um did
09:04he really
09:04want to win the game or was he tired of it and just kind of running routes out there and
09:09doing cardio
09:09but i i think that this year is going to be a big year for cd number two is going
09:14to be saquon
09:14barkley so we all see where my number one player is going well it's a quarterback i just don't know
09:21if you're going to say dac or jaden daniels i will not be saying dakota rain prescott as my number
09:26one
09:27uh quarterback in the division especially with brian west sitting across the table from me because i
09:31won't hear the end of it until something bad happens during the season but jaden daniels is my
09:36number one player in the nfc east i think this is going to be a big bounce back year for
09:40him i think this
09:41is him cementing like no first year wasn't a fluke this is the real deal i'm here i just need
09:47to stay
09:47healthy and i'm gonna ball out so give me jade number one wow i'm just looking through a lot of
09:56guys we left off kev i'm just trying to see did we other than okay we had barkley and jaden
10:01daniels
10:02as shared top five players i mean you could legitimately just do a top five and not be
10:09crazy i think that people listening to this are going to be like the one you're you're high on
10:16jaden daniels right now being a top five player and how can't you have cd lamb as a top five
10:23player
10:23in the division and ahead of malik neighbors i think malik neighbors has elite level i'm talking about
10:31jamar chase justin jefferson level talent and if he's healthy and the knees fine i went back and
10:40pulled up the list of quarterbacks okay in 2024 here are the quarterbacks that malik neighbors caught 109
10:48passes from in his rookie season by the way he only played in 15 games he missed two games and
10:54still had
10:55109 catches daniel jones drew lock tommy devito tim boyle uh packed a game how could we forget how
11:05did i how was russell wilson what what year was russell wilson a starter it was last year it was
11:10last year because he was the my fault the starter in pittsburgh that's correct that year
11:16all right uh you've got tyler smith jordan my lotta cd lamb barkley jaden um that's five to one
11:27so one to five jaden's one barkley two lamb three my lot of four tyler smith five my one was
11:33barkley
11:34two neighbors three jalen carter four jaden daniels and five quinion mitchell mitchell's the best corner
11:41in the division that's not really debatable right no it's i i think that is a stone cold fact right
11:46now yeah okay your calls 301 230 0980 301 230 0980 i want your top five years in the nfc
12:00east we've given
12:00you now ample time to work on it if you only have three that's fine i'll take your top three
12:06um it's
12:08hard it's a really hard list to put together there i would say the biggest pushback my list is
12:15going to get is how do you not have cd lamb as one of the best five players in the
12:20division
12:21can i just mention that for whatever reason i've just never been a massive cd lamb fan
12:27i've always thought he's really good kind of the way i feel about terry to a certain extent now cd
12:32lamb
12:33is more explosive he's got better separation ability route running ability a better probably
12:38a better deep threat but man he drops some big balls in games over the years
12:44you
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