{"id":54306,"date":"2025-11-27T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54306\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:13:08","slug":"jaxson-dart-clears-concussion-protocol-to-set-up-giants-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54306\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxson Dart clears concussion protocol to set up Giants return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaxson Dart cleared concussion protocol on Thursday, allowing the rookie quarterback to return to the field for the Giants for Monday night\u2019s game against the Patriots at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Dart missed two games after coming out of the Week 10 loss to the Bears with a concussion. Veteran Jameis Winston started both games in place of Dart, with the Giants losing at home to the Packers (27-20) and on the road to the Lions (34-27 in overtime).<\/p>\n<p>It was a positive sign on Wednesday when Dart was able to participate fully in practice, something he was unable to do last week. <\/p>\n<p>The last step for Dart was to be cleared by an independent neurologist and that happened on Thanksgiving Day.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.30946292;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37783895\" width=\"773\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-quest-diagnostics-training-center-116242435_611fbd.jpg\" alt=\"New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart (6) when the New York Giants practiced Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford, NJ.\" class=\"wp-image-37783895\"  \/>Jaxson Dart has cleared concussion protocol and will return for the Giants. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Dart is 2-5 in his seven NFL starts. He has completed 62.6 percent of his passes for 1,417 yards, 10 touchdowns and three interceptions for a passer rating of 93.5.<\/p>\n<p>Interim head coach Mike Kafka has said when Dart is healthy he would return to the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants did not practice on Thursday. The team projected that NT Dexter Lawrence (elbow), OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux (shoulder) and LB Demetrius Flanagan-Fowles (neck\/knee) would not have participated.<\/p>\n<p>The following players were projected as being limited in practice: CB Paulson Adebo (knee), CB Deonte Banks (hip), CB Korie Black (bicep), DL D.J. Davidson (knee), S Tyler Nubin (neck), WR Wan\u2019Dale Robinson (ankle) and WR Darius Slayton (hamstring).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaxson Dart cleared concussion protocol on Thursday, allowing the rookie quarterback to return to the field for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20363,3917,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-54306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-jameis-winston","9":"tag-jaxson-dart","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306","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=54306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}