Daniel Jones has made 70 regular-season starts in the NFL . Sixty-nine came with the Giants , the team that selected him No. 6 overall in 2019, On Sunday, he made his first start for the Colts .
I'm not sure how it could have gone much better; Jones finished 22 of 29 (75.9%) for 272 yards and a touchdown, he ran two more in from a yard out, and the Colts, which had previously lost 11 straight season openers, cruised to a 33-8 win over a Dolphins outfit that played like all 53 players on the active roster met for the first time 10 minutes before kickoff.
There's more: Jones had seven previous starts in which he completed better than 75.9% of his throws, but he never threw for more than 203 yards in any of those games. That changed on Sunday, as did opinions about Jones' fit in Sh