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Quarterback Jayden Daniels was preparing for the NFL draft this time last year. Now, he’s on the doorstep of the Super Bowl.

The No. 2 overall pick has taken a Washington Commanders team that finished 4-13 last season to the franchise’s first NFC Championship Game since its 1991-92 Super Bowl campaign.

The wild-card Commanders entered the playoffs as the NFC’s No. 6 seed following a 12-5 regular season. Daniels and Co. first outlasted the No. 3 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-20 on Wild Card Weekend before stunning the top-seeded Detroit Lions 45-31 in the Divisional Round.

The Washington Commanders defeated the Detroit Lions in the divisional playoff to advance to the NFC Championship for the first time in 33 years.

Up next for Washington is an NFC East showdown against the No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles in the conference championship, with a trip to Super Bowl 59 in New Orleanson the line. And Daniels will join rare company when he leads …