{"id":110741,"date":"2025-06-07T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110741\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:25:13","slug":"russell-wilson-says-giants-drafting-jaxson-dart-doesnt-change-anything-at-all-veteran-focused-on-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110741\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Wilson says Giants drafting Jaxson Dart ‘doesn’t change anything at all,’ veteran focused on ‘success’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a team with an established veteran quarterback adds a QB in the draft, it can sometimes make the elder passer upset, or feel slighted, knowing a younger player could soon take their job. The New York Giants<\/a> added Super Bowl<\/a> champion Russell Wilson<\/a> from the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> this offseason and with Jameis Winston<\/a> and Tommy DeVito<\/a> as the other options, it was clear who QB1 was<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then the NFL Draft<\/a> happened. The Giants selected Jaxson Dart<\/a> at No. 25 overall and in using a first-round pick on the 22-year-old they are hoping they found their franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n

Wilson, who is now seemingly adding “rookie mentor” to his resume for this year, says nothing has changed in his approach since the team added Dart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“No, it doesn’t change anything at all,” Wilson\u00a0said<\/a>. “I think the biggest thing is for me is just being my best every day, leading. I always think about just leading everybody, just leading every room, every moment, every time I get to step between the white lines and the opportunity of that.”<\/p>\n

Wilson, who signed a one-year deal<\/a>, is focused on improving his game as he prepares to play for his third team in as many years.<\/p>\n

“I just think about having success today,” then 36-year-old said, via a team transcript. “It’s always been my approach. Every day is like I’m trying to be the best in the world. I think that for me, mentally, you have confidence in yourself. You have confidence in what you do, your process. I constantly stay the course and understand that if I’m the best me, I know how great that is. And so, for me, I always just stay within. I don’t really think about outside. And I know you guys have a great day job to do and everything else. But for me, I just stay focused on the process of it all.”<\/p>\n

Dart could spend his rookie year on the bench learning behind the veteran, but if Wilson begins to struggle<\/a>, the team could decide to start going down their depth chart. Giants general manager Joe Schoen has confirmed Wilson is still the starter<\/a> and believes Dart can benefit from sitting for a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a team with an established veteran quarterback adds a QB in the draft, it can sometimes make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1801,13,26759,1917,56,2321,2469,6,57,572,3349],"class_list":{"0":"post-110741","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-jameis-winston","11":"tag-jaxson-dart","12":"tag-matt-flynn","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","19":"tag-russell-wilson","20":"tag-tommy-devito"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114641130362503580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110741","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=110741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}