The Giants used a first-round draft pick on Jaxson Dart with the thought that one day he will be their franchise quarterback, and everything he has done in the preseason has justified that selection. But Dart knows that right now, he\u2019s a backup.<\/p>\n
After playing well in the Giants\u2019 third and final preseason game on Thursday night, Dart said he thinks Russell Wilson is going to have a big year for the Giants, but that Dart will be ready whenever he\u2019s asked to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like whenever my number is called I\u2019m gonna go out there, I\u2019m gonna play my game and I\u2019m gonna ball,\u201d Dart said. \u201cThat\u2019s just my mindset any time I touch the field. Obviously Russ is the starter, and he\u2019s going to do amazing, he\u2019s had such a great camp and has played at an elite level. My job is just to be the best teammate and be ready whenever it is. I\u2019m excited for Russ and what he\u2019s going to do this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dart said he has no doubt that Wilson deserves to start when the Giants open the season against the Commanders on September 7.<\/p>\n
\u201cRuss has completely earned that role,\u201d Dart said. \u201cI just want to be the best teammate and I want this team to win, so whatever my role is for that to happen, I\u2019m going to do that to the best of my ability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, if Dart does become the starter at some point in his rookie year, he thinks he\u2019s going to be a good one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I step on the field I expect to play at a high level,\u201d Dart said. \u201cI have the confidence that I\u2019m going to be the best player on the field every time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants used a first-round draft pick on Jaxson Dart with the thought that one day he will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-103472","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\/103472","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=103472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}