{"id":101983,"date":"2025-06-04T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/101983\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:31:10","slug":"what-eli-manning-and-phil-simms-said-about-jaxson-dart-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/101983\/","title":{"rendered":"What Eli Manning and Phil Simms said about Jaxson Dart \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eli Manning and Phil Simms know the pressure Jaxson Dart<\/a> will face as the New York Giants\u2019 presumptive future franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n

The Giants drafted Dart with the 25th pick, trading back into the first round to make Dart the second quarterback taken in the 2025 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

The former Corner Canyon High quarterback joined a QB room consisting of Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston and Tommy DeVito. <\/p>\n

Both Manning and Simms also know a thing or two about NFL success. They have two Super Bowl rings each, and they recently weighed in on the rookie quarterback.<\/p>\n

What Eli Manning said about Jaxson Dart<\/p>\n

Manning has told Dart that he\u2019s always available as a confidant and mentor, Manning shared with reporters Friday at a Madden 26<\/a> launch event, according to CBS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve told him, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m here to help in any way. I\u2019m a phone call away, a text away, but I\u2019m not getting in the way,\u2019\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Manning and Dart traveled a similar path to New York with both having come to the Giants from Ole Miss. <\/p>\n

Manning even called Dart the night he was drafted.<\/p>\n

\u201cEli\u2019s been a huge role model of mine, even before … I got to Ole Miss, you know, watching him beat Tom (Brady) twice. That was incredible. Then I go to Ole Miss and not only him, but the whole Manning family was great to me. Specifically, Eli was a great asset,\u201d Dart said, per Fireside Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Manning said he is respecting Dart\u2019s personal NFL journey \u2014 and his advice to the rookie is for him to embrace the journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got to figure out, this is your journey, this is your deal. But if there\u2019s anything you need, happy to be here,\u201d Manning said he told Dart. <\/p>\n

Dart has yet to take an NFL snap, but has already impressed Manning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been to some practices, and I\u2019ve known Jaxson for the last three years, since he\u2019s been at Ole Miss and gotten to watch his career. So I\u2019ve been just impressed with Jaxson because I\u2019ve seen him get better every single year,\u201d Manning said. <\/p>\n

That progress and constant desire to improve is what teams want to see in their players, the Hall of Fame finalist added. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like he\u2019s doing that with the Giants. Every day, you\u2019re going to learn something, and you\u2019re going to make mistakes. That\u2019s just part of it, but learning from those mistakes, not repeating those mistakes, and (it) seems like he\u2019s just trying to be there, earn the respect of his teammates and his coaches through his hard work,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

What Phil Simms said about Jaxson Dart<\/p>\n

On Monday, Simms shared praise for Dart while on the \u201cUp & Adams\u201d show<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Dart and Simms haven\u2019t met yet, but Simms said he already loves Dart\u2019s decision-making, throwing and, most of all, his mobility.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis mobility was just better than I was giving him credit for during the offseason as I watched all these quarterbacks. You know, (he) runs at the right time, gives the play every opportunity to have success, and when in doubt, the pressure\u2019s too much, he can make it happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Simms told host Kay Adams that he thinks Dart needs to start this season.<\/p>\n

Simms himself felt he understood the game and was ready to start after the third week of his rookie season in 1979, he said. He was named the starter a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

Per Simms, the ideal situation for Dart and the Giants is a better start than last season. Then six to eight weeks in, the Giants need to put Dart in the game unless the team believes it can be \u201cgreat\u201d without him.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive him some experience and let him have some success and some failures because that\u2019s how you grow in the NFL as a quarterback,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli Manning and Phil Simms know the pressure Jaxson Dart will face as the New York Giants\u2019 presumptive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,1852,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-101983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-news-feed-national","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114622279476489997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}