New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll was peppered with questions concerning the quarterback depth chart after Jaxson Dart had one other spectacular preseason sport on Saturday.
The No. 25 choose went 14-of-16 for 137 yards and one landing within the Giants’ 31-12 win over the New York Jets. He is 26-of-35 passing for 291 yards and two touchdowns by means of the primary two weeks of the preseason.
Daboll was requested by the press after the sport if there was an opportunity for Dart to get within the “combine” to overhaul Russell Wilson in a quarterback battle this summer season.
Daboll confirmed Wilson continues to be the chief, and mentioned he thinks Dart has extra to show earlier than he is able to be a starter within the league.
“Russ is our starter and we will preserve growing Jaxson,” Daboll mentioned, by way of the Giants’ web site. “We’ve a plan. We had a plan some time in the past. Earlier cease we have had, we have had a plan for this quarterback. It is particular to every quarterback that you’ve, they need to possess the traits that you just covet, that you just search for within the draft.
“I believe we simply need to preserve working with him and perceive there’s going to be quite a lot of downs. I do know there’s some ups proper now however there’s going to be quite a lot of downs and we simply obtained to continue to grow and speaking, simply preserve getting higher.”
Daboll would not decide to giving Dart reps with the first-team offense to see what he is totally able to with that unit. He additionally urged that Dart would possibly look higher within the preseason than he would within the common season as a result of the Jets and the Buffalo Payments used “vanilla” seems to be towards the Giants.
Whereas Dart has extra to point out Daboll in follow, his endurance with the rookie could be examined by how Wilson does early within the common season. If the veteran struggles in September, he will likely be pressured into rushing up his plan and beginning Dart after a powerful preseason.
The Giants are doing the precise factor by not throwing Dart into the hearth too early. However Dart is not making it simple on the teaching employees to maintain him within the developmental section by executing the offense as effectively as he has in his first two video games within the league.
