{"id":165124,"date":"2025-09-24T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165124\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:04:09","slug":"new-york-giants-putting-jaxson-dart-in-rough-spot-for-nfl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165124\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants putting Jaxson Dart in rough spot for NFL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Giants<\/a> have made a change at quarterback after just three games into the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1970525393368080685\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo<\/a> reported on Tuesday that the Giants are benching Russell Wilson in favor of 2025 first-round pick Jaxson Dart. Wilson tossed two interceptions and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401772920\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">completed just 56% of his passes<\/a> in New York&#8217;s 22-9 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in Week 3, which dropped the Giants to 0-3 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite signing Wilson and Jameis Winston this offseason, New York used the No.25 overall pick in April&#8217;s draft on Dart, who was the second quarterback taken in the draft after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/tennessee-titans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>&#8216; Cam Ward.<\/p>\n<p>With Wilson struggling, the Giants will turn to Dart as they look to salvage their season. However, the road is only getting tougher for Brian Daboll&#8217;s squad, which will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/los-angeles-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> at MetLife Stadium on Sunday in Week 4.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is off to a 3-0 start in Jim Harbaugh&#8217;s second season, and though quarterback Justin Herbert has been tremendous, the defense has been the catalyst of their success.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Minter&#8217;s unit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/stats\/team\/_\/view\/defense\/table\/passing\/sort\/netYardsPerGame\/dir\/asc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ranks top-ten in points and yards per game allowed<\/a> through three weeks, and has also tallied ten sacks, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/stats\/team-stats\/defense\/sacks\/2025\/reg\/all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which ranks sixth in the league.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing against a formidable Chargers&#8217; defense in his NFL debut is a tough beat for Dart, who did have an impressive preseason with three touchdowns and no interceptions <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-caps-impressive-preseason-with-third-touchdown-pass-in-as-many-appearances#:~:text=In%20three%20preseason%20tilts%2C%20Dart,his%20head%20on%20the%20turf.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on a 68% completion rate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dart has all the tools and talent to be New York&#8217;s eventual franchise quarterback, but the Ole Miss product could be in for a long afternoon on Sunday. Los Angeles seems poised to take the next step as a legitimate contender in the AFC this year, and they have all the pieces to give Dart and the Giants a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-york-giants\/news\/giants-russell-wilson-responds-publicly-getting-benched-jaxson-dart\/db5e3da9862bd7b26f2e9bc9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giants&#8217; Russell Wilson responds publicly to getting benched for Jaxson Dart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have made a change at quarterback after just three games into the 2025 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-165124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}