The time is just about here for the New York Giants
“Jaxson Dart is coming,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter said Thursday morning on Get Up.
That much has been clear since April, when the Giants traded back into the first round to take the strong-armed QB out of Ole Miss with the No. 25 overall pick.
It didn’t matter that they’d just signed Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston. The Dart selection was about the future.
The future might be now.
“The fans want Jaxson Dart, they are going to get him. We don’t know if it’s going to be at halftime of this game,” Schefter said on Get Up.
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Wilson is coming off one of the least efficient games of his career on a day the Giants didn’t find the end zone in a season-opening loss to the Washington Commanders.
Dart looked sharp in the preseason which, yes, isn’t the regular season. But it was enough to have the fanbase clamoring for him to get a chance.
This might be a lost season for the Giants regardless in the stout NFC East, so there are two ways of looking at it.
On the one hand, playing Dart can be great for his development so that by next year, he’s ready to put together a winning season.
On the other hand, there’s nothing to be gained by rushing Dart if there likely isn’t a 2025 playoff spot at the end of the road, anyway.
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Schefter’s hint that a change could come as soon as halftime of Week 2 is new information.
The Giants play the Dallas Cowboys, who are also 0-1 and will be desperate to get their first win against a team they’ll be solidly favored to beat.
But imagine the energy if Dart comes into the game at some point. It’d be the start of a new era of Giants football.
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