Jaxson Dart is formally official.
The Giants’ first-round quarterback put pen to paper on Friday, signing his four-year, $16.9 million rookie contract that features an $8.9 million signing bonus, the workforce introduced.
Dart is now the fifth member of the Giants’ seven-player draft class to signal, becoming a member of first spherical outdoors linebacker Abdul Carter, fifth-round offensive lineman Marcus Mbow, seventh spherical tight finish Thomas Fidone II and seventh-round cornerback Korie Black.
Third spherical defensive lineman Darius Alexander and fourth-round working again Cam Scattebo stay unsigned.
Scattebo practiced through the first half of Wednesday’s first open OTA observe earlier than stepping off to get stretched out by a coach. Alexander didn’t observe for unknown causes and confirmed up on the sideline late.
Dart, 22, has been working on the Giants’ facility because the workforce traded as much as draft him No. 25 total in late April. He’s practising throughout OTAs because the Giants’ No. 3 quarterback on the depth chart behind starter Russell Wilson and backup Jameis Winston.
Head coach Brian Daboll spent focused time with Dart particularly on the workforce’s first open OTA observe in a plan to develop the younger QB for a hopefully vibrant future.
The Giants traded decide No. 34 on this 12 months’s second spherical, decide No. 99 within the third spherical and a future third rounder to maneuver as much as No. 25 and choose Dart out of Ole Miss. Now he’s underneath contract on a four-year deal that carries a fifth-year possibility, since he was a primary spherical decide.
The most effective-case situation for the Giants, nonetheless, can be if Dart grows right into a star franchise quarterback who will get paid on an enormous contract earlier than that fifth-year possibility dialog even will get broached.
