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Confident and comfortable were the best two words to describe Dart at rookie camp. The same ones fit after Wednesday. He has this, as Okereke said, “aura” about him. You can tell he’s authentic and the type of person guys want to be around – not because of status or money, but because of his moxy.
Nothing about his interactions with teammates seems fake. The Giants broke their pre-practice stretch and Dart went up, high-fiving and tapping most of his teammates on the helmet. He’s the first to celebrate with guys after a catch or score. After every drill, he’s talking to someone else. I covered Zach Wilson with the Jets. Teammates often criticized him because they never felt he was one of them. There is a very obvious difference between the interactions you see with Dart and his guys, compared to Wilson. Most notable: Guys are also routinely coming up to him, too.
Change always brings new faces and some discomfort, which requires an adjustment period. So it’s natural that the Giants are learning about their new players and team this spring. But turning over the quarterback position over is different, especially given what the Giants paid Jones and how much they believed in him and built around him for so long until they moved on.
Schoen and Daboll have staked their reputations and jobs on the quarterback room being improved by adding Wilson, Winston and Dart as replacements. Right now, though, the Giants’ quarterback room does not look obviously improved for 2025. At the moment, with the hope of Dart’s development off in the distance, the Giants’ quarterback room looks crowded and pedestrian. Or maybe it’s just different.
Selecting Abdul Carter with the third pick in the draft and still having their choice of available quarterbacks when the Giants selected Jaxson Dart at No. 25 showed the team read the market correctly. Whether Dart will succeed is another question entirely, and history is not on the Giants’ side (in the salary-cap era, which dates to 1993, only three of 15 quarterbacks drafted in the first round after pick No. 19 signed long-term extensions with their original teams). Even so, the process seemed sound for the Giants, a welcome change from the previous two offseasons, which featured a Daniel Jones extension (2023) and Saquon...
