Jaxson Dart took one other step Saturday evening towards grabbing the Giants’ beginning quarterback job if Russell Wilson falters early this common season.
Dart, 22, took first-team snaps in a sport for the primary time as a Large — then led the second-string offense on two consecutive landing drives — in a primetime preseason tune-up towards the Jets at MetLife Stadium.
The primary-round pick of Ole Miss directed a high-paced, 9-play, 71-yard scoring drive to open the second half, capped by a 20-yard landing cross to tight finish Greg Dulcich. Then he plunged into the top zone from the 1-yard line to place the exclamation level on a 12-play, 55-yard scoring drive.
The second rating capitalized on an interception by undrafted rookie defensive again Makari Paige. Dart completed 14-of-16 passing for 137 yards, a landing and a 123.2 passer score.
Juice Wells Jr., Dart’s former Ole Miss teammate, made some nifty strikes for an 11-yard catch and run all the way down to the purpose line on the second scoring drive.
Wilson, the projected Week 1 starter, did his half on the Giants’ opening offensive drive to guard his job. The veteran quarterback bombed an 80-yard completion to rookie receiver Beaux Collins to arrange a 1-yard Devin Singletary landing run.
However as soon as Wilson’s first-team offense sputtered, head coach Brian Daboll snuck Dart onto the sector on the second play of the Giants’ fourth offensive drive. And Dart promptly accomplished a display cross to tight finish Theo Johnson for a 30-yard catch and run.
That cross marked Dart’s first snap in a sport behind the Giants’ projected beginning offensive line with a number of of their prime ability gamers.
Wilson changed Dart instantly on the following snap, however the drive stalled when Wilson threw a deep interception in the long run zone to Jets nook Qwan’tez Stiggers on a miscommunication along with his receiver Collins.
That’s when Daboll changed Wilson with Dart for the Giants’ fifth drive whereas leaving the remainder of the first-team offense within the sport.
Dart went three-and-out on the drive. He took successful on a second down incompletion from the Jets’ Phidarian Mathis, who beat guard Evan Neal. Then the Jets’ Kingsley Jonathan tripped up a scrambling Dart on third down.
However it was extra significant that Dart acquired the expertise than anything. It displays that Daboll and the Giants are persevering with to reveal Dart to increased ranges of competitors and extra alternatives with an eye fixed on taking part in him as quickly as he’s prepared and Wilson isn’t getting the job performed.
In the meanwhile, that quarterback change doesn’t really feel far off.
GAME NOTES: Jameis Winston drove the Giants’ third-stringers to 10 factors within the fourth quarter, with a 34-yard completion to Dalen Cambre to arrange a Jude McAtamney subject purpose and a 9-play, 65-yard drive capped by a 1-yard Winston TD run … A protracted checklist of Giants gamers sat out the sport because of harm or warning on the group’s half: prime receiver Malik Nabers, defensive sort out Dexter Lawrence, left sort out Andrew Thomas (PUP), nook Deonte Banks, tight finish Chris Manhertz, tight finish Daniel Bellinger, operating again Cam Skattebo, nook Tre Hawkins, security Tyler Nubin, linebacker Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles, security Okay’Von Wallace and Da’Quan Felton … Corners Paulson Adebo and Cor’Dale Flott made third down cross breakups to carry Justin Fields and the Jets’ offense to a few factors on their first two drives … The Giants dedicated three first-half penalties: an encroachment by defensive sort out Rakeem Nunez-Roches, a false begin by Johnson the tight finish and a particular crew holding by security Raheem Layne on a punt return.
Initially Printed: August 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM EDT
