Daniel Jones presents trophy at NFL FLAG Championships in Westfield

Daniel Jones handed the Boys 14U championship trophy to the winning team in Westfield, putting an active NFL quarterback at the center of the NFL FLAG Championships’ biggest moment. The Colts quarterback’s presentation gave the age-group final a pro-football finish and put a recognizable star in front of the players, parents and coaches who filled the tournament’s closing stage.

The trophy handoff came at the end of the third annual NFL Flag Championships presented by Toyota, which the NFL moved to Westfield, Indiana, for July 23-26, 2026. Championship games were scheduled for Sunday, July 26, at the Droplight Grand Park Sports Campus, a 400-plus-acre complex with more than 30 multi-purpose fields in the Indianapolis metro area. The league said the event would bring together more than 350 girls and boys teams from across the United States and around the globe for four days of play.

That scale matters because the NFL has pushed the championships well beyond a local youth tournament. The league has described the event as the world’s premier youth flag football tournament and the largest youth flag football tournament in the world, and NFL FLAG’s structure includes a Boys 14U division alongside the girls brackets. Jones’s appearance fit that model: a current starting-level NFL player reinforcing that the stage is meant to feel consequential, not ceremonial.

Westfield has become a focal point for that growth. Grand Park Sports Campus has been positioned as the tournament’s home base, and the Colts have used the event to deepen their ties to youth football in Indiana. The organization also announced a $1 million investment with the Jim Irsay Family to support girls high school flag football as a fully sanctioned Indiana High School Athletic Association sport, a move that connects the youth pipeline to the next level of competition.

For the Boys 14U champions, the moment with Jones was more than a photo opportunity. It tied a title game at Grand Park to the broader direction of the sport, where NFL-backed investment, national visibility and high-profile appearances are helping flag football look less like a side event and more like a serious development track.