{"id":100902,"date":"2025-08-22T03:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100902\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:27:10","slug":"giants-rookie-qb-jaxson-dart-cleared-after-injury-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100902\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants rookie QB Jaxson Dart cleared after injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755833229_598_raanan_jordan.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jordan RaananAug 21, 2025, 09:52 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">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<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"378600ea-2397-8364-8399-b7c1606a49a7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyg\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"13e97d3e-2171-371b-9a7a-2c44670b5a62\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4689114\/jaxson-dart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxson Dart<\/a> concluded his first preseason with another fine performance, capped by an injury scare.<\/p>\n<p>After a 23-yard run on fourth down late in the first quarter of Thursday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401772974\/patriots-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">42-10 win<\/a> against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0078f353-fe3e-67ed-a42c-43cca0568e21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ne\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>, Dart tried to run over two defenders. He fumbled, and his head slammed to the ground. The officials stopped play and required him to leave the field.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46038753\/2025-nfl-preseason-week-3-takeaways-analysis\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1535017_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"57af2581-cec9-d5a3-2afe-7a719925f78b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2969939\/jameis-winston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jameis Winston<\/a> threw a 30-yard touchdown pass on the next play while Dart was examined.<\/p>\n<p>Dart was checked in the blue medical tent before emerging minutes later. He cleared the concussion protocol, but didn&#8217;t return to the game when the Giants got the ball back in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Dart went 32-of-47 passing (68.1%) for 372 yards with 3 touchdowns and no interceptions in the preseason. He had 6 rushes for 52 yards with 1 touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan RaananAug 21, 2025, 09:52 PM ET CloseJordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-100902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}