{"id":314015,"date":"2026-08-05T03:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314015\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:04:19","slug":"isaiah-likely-the-giants-new-chess-piece-to-raise-jaxson-darts-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314015\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Likely the Giants&#8217; new &#8216;chess piece&#8217; to raise Jaxson Dart&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. \u2014 Jaxson Dart raced alone around left end for a touchdown and, to the dismay of John Harbaugh, threw the ball at Greg Newsome II, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/04\/sports\/jaxson-darts-td-celebration-comes-with-a-stark-giants-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drawing a 15-yard taunting penalty<\/a>. Isaiah Likely quickly got between Dart and Newsome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the type of dawg you want at quarterback,\u201d Likely said. \u201cAnd obviously, Newsome, I\u2019ve been playing [against] him for quite a while. I know he\u2019s a dawg himself, so he\u2019s not going to back down on nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Harbaugh didn\u2019t bring Likely with him from Baltimore to be a peacemaker. He brought him to the Giants to be Jaxson Dart\u2019s 6-foot-4, 245-pound quarterback-friendly weapon at tight end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can line up outside, in the slot, in-line, in the backfield, I\u2019ve done it all,\u201d Likely said. \u201cI\u2019ve called myself a chess piece before in the past, and I feel like I\u2019ve lived up to the name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. \u2014 Jaxson Dart raced alone around left end for a touchdown and, to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3917,9,2683,11,10,22,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-314015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}