Jayden Daniels failed to stick the landing during Monday’s game.
The Washington Commanders quarterback Daniels had an up-and-down performance on “Monday Night Football” against the Chicago Bears. Daniels produced some nice moments at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., throwing for three touchdowns (including an absolute dart to Zach Ertz in the fourth quarter).
Jayden Daniels with his THIRD TD of the night!
This one to Zach Ertz pic.twitter.com/ktxDbaaUaw
— NFL Fantasy Football (@NFLFantasy) October 14, 2025
But Daniels also threw an interception in the first quarter and then cost Washington the game with a brutal fumble in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter. The Commanders were leading 24-22 and had possession with just over three minutes left, looking to be in full clock-draining mode.
However, on a 3rd-and-1 play in Chicago territory, Daniels bobbled a handoff to running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt, causing a fumble that was recovered by Chicago’s Nahshon Wright.
THE COMMANDERS FUMBLE AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME
CHICAGO HAS LIFEpic.twitter.com/m3WtQGMVcC
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 14, 2025
Another angle of the play showed that the fumble was clearly Daniels’ fault.
Running back gonna get blamed for this but it’s Jayden Daniels fault pic.twitter.com/96egZUsRPX
— John (@iam_johnw) October 14, 2025
The fumble directly led to a Commanders’ loss as the Bears took control from there and marched the ball into field-goal range before Jake Moody hit a game-winning 38-yarder as time expired. That gave Chicago an improbable 25-24 victory.
JAKE MOODY FOR THE WIN! pic.twitter.com/K8GEvd7dwC
— NFL (@NFL) October 14, 2025
Daniels was quickly slapped with the memes online for his immensely costly fumble.
Commanders lost because Jayden Daniels fumbled a simple hand off pic.twitter.com/Db7yobSnLm
— ¹⁰ (@HoodiGarland) October 14, 2025
Jayden Daniels with the game on the line pic.twitter.com/fmMtQ2NpIH
— 1600FILMZ (@1600FILMZ) October 14, 2025
Jayden Daniels handing off the football: pic.twitter.com/laQZFcmnV9
— Jake (@JakeCollinsM) October 14, 2025
Jayden Daniels with the ball and lead at the two minute warning: pic.twitter.com/NPGZWYnRG5
— OverDogs Bet (@OverDogsBet) October 14, 2025
The Pro Bowler Daniels, who led the Commanders to a surprise NFC title game berth as a rookie last year, is one of the darlings of the NFL right now. But 2025 has been off to a much tougher start for him as Daniels already missed multiple games due to a knee injury and now has Washington at just 3-3 on the year.
Now it looks like Daniels has taken Geno Smith off the hook when it comes to the most roastable “Monday Night Football” performance of the season thus far.