{"id":113701,"date":"2025-09-02T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113701\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:39:07","slug":"rookie-jaxson-dart-unofficially-listed-as-giants-qb2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113701\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Jaxson Dart unofficially listed as Giants’ QB2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jordan RaananSep 3, 2025, 03:21 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can be heard hosting on ESPN Radio. Raanan joined ESPN in 2016.<\/p>\n

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants<\/a> have listed rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart<\/a> as their number two quarterback behind Russell Wilson<\/a> on their unofficial first depth chart of the regular season.<\/p>\n

Dart is listed ahead of veteran Jameis Winston<\/a>, who was the No. 2 on the unofficial depth chart throughout the preseason, when Dart was third. But Dart has taken the large majority of second-team reps throughout the summer and worked with the second-team offense in the preseason.<\/p>\n

Still, coach Brian Daboll would not reveal who would be his backup quarterback Sunday when the Giants open their season on the road against the division-rival Washington Commanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Any roster decisions based on who’s going to be in the backup or who this player is going to be, we’ll have that out there on Sunday,” Daboll said during a Zoom call with reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Giants players had the day off Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Dart, 22, was the 25th overall pick in this year’s draft out of Ole Miss. The Giants traded back into the first round to take the young quarterback.<\/p>\n

The move seemed to be validated by how Dart performed this summer. He continuously improved throughout training camp and had a strong preseason, finishing 32-of-47 passing for 372 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. Dart also rushed for a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan RaananSep 3, 2025, 03:21 AM CloseJordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-113701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}