The NFL schedule-makers did the New York Giants few favors by giving Large Blue matchups on the Washington Commanders, on the Dallas Cowboys, versus the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and versus the Los Angeles Chargers to open the 2025 season.
Shortly after the league’s full schedule was launched on Wednesday evening, ESPN’s Dan Graziano defined why he thinks it isn’t an “overreaction” to imagine that rookie first-round draft decide Jaxson Dart would be the Giants’ beginning quarterback over Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston by November.
“The entire historical past round these conditions tells us Dart will play sooner or later this season,” Graziano famous. “Wilson hasn’t been an excellent beginning quarterback for the previous 4 years. Winston is a stopgap man at this level in his profession. Dart is the Giants’ future, and except their current goes to be a really nice shock to lots of people, they will need to get that future going as quickly as potential.”
Giants general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll have indicated they’d favor to provide Dart a redshirt rookie season. That mentioned, Pat Leonard of the New York Day by day Information and Connor Hughes of SNY each suppose the Giants might finish Nov. 2 at 1-8 if both Wilson or Winston is the membership’s QB1 at the moment.
Thus, Graziano indicated New York might flip to Dart as quickly as for the membership’s Week 5 recreation on the New Orleans Saints on Oct. 5. The Giants host the reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 9, and Daboll theoretically might use the additional time to get Dart able to play on the Denver Broncos on Oct. 19.
If the Giants keep respectable however are realistically extra pretenders than contenders in early December, they may spend their Week 14 bye making ready for Dart to make his first profession begin at house towards the Commanders on Dec. 14.
Many, if not most, Giants reporters imagine staff co-owner John Mara will present Schoen and Daboll the door in January if the membership endures one other woeful season except Dart seems like a possible franchise quarterback by the tip of Week 18. What occurs over New York’s first 4 video games might decide if Dart is atop the depth chart for the October matchup at a New Orleans facet that seemingly is on observe to call fellow rookie Tyler Shough its Week 1 starter.
