OLB Brian Burns produced 4 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, 2 quarterback hits and 1 pass defensed.
Burns moved his season sack total to 9.0. It is the seventh straight season that Burns has recorded 7.5+ sacks. He is the eighth player in NFL history to begin his career with seven consecutive seasons of 7.5+ sacks, joining Yannick Ngakoue (seven seasons), Aaron Donald (eight), Ryan Kerrigan (eight), DeMarcus Ware (eight), Jared Allen (10), Derrick Thomas (10) and Reggie White (14).
Burns recorded 2.0 sacks in back-to-back games for the first time in his career. He is the first Giant since Olivier Vernon (2.0 sacks at Cleveland, 11/27/2016 and 2.0 sacks at Pittsburgh, 12/4/2016) to have multiple sacks in two straight contests.
Since sacks became an official statistic in 1982, Burns is the fourth Giant to total 9.0 or more sacks through the first seven games in a season (also Dexter Lawrence II, 9.0 sacks in 2024, Michael Strahan, 12.5 sacks in 2001 and Leonard Marshall, 11.5 sacks in 1985).
QB Jaxson Dart finished 15-of-33 passing for 283 yards, 3 touchdowns and 1 interception. He also rushed 5 times for 11 yards and 1 touchdown.
He is the first Giants rookie quarterback to throw 3+ touchdowns and rush for 1+ touchdown since Charlie Conerly threw for 3 touchdowns and rushed for another on 11/21/1948 at Green Bay.
Dart is the third rookie quarterback since 2000 to be responsible for 10 touchdowns in his first four career starts, joining Justin Herbert (10 touchdowns) and DeShaun Watson (13 touchdowns).
TE Daniel Bellinger caught 3 passes for 88 yards and 1 touchdown and TE Theo Johnson hauled in 3 catches for 66 yards and 1 touchdown.
Bellinger scored on a 44-yard reception and Johnson scored on a 41-yard reception. This season, only three tight ends have scored on pass plays of 40+ yards and the Giants own two of those three (also Pittsburgh TE Pat Freiermuth, 68-yard touchdown).
Since at least 2000, no other team has had two different tight ends record touchdown catches of 40+ yards in the same game.
The Giants became the first team in the NFL this season to score 3 touchdowns of 30+ yards in a single game (Bellinger’s 44-yard touchdown, Johnson’s 41-yard touchdown and RB Tyrone Tracy Jr.’s 31-yard rushing touchdown).