{"id":53762,"date":"2025-05-16T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/53762\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T03:34:07","slug":"when-could-jaxson-dart-make-his-1st-nfl-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/53762\/","title":{"rendered":"When Could Jaxson Dart Make His 1st NFL Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0New York Giants<\/a>\u00a0revealed their\u00a02025 season schedule<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday. The NFL wasn’t kind to the Giants, who enter the campaign with general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll on the hot seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Giants will almost certainly want a veteran quarterback to help navigate the schedule’s initial difficult stretch. That makes\u00a0Russell Wilson<\/a>\u00a0the favorite to begin the campaign as the starter.\u00a0Jameis Winston<\/a>\u00a0represents an alternative option, but Wilson was signed to be the bridge starter.<\/p>\n

With experience needed to survive the early-season gauntlet, the question is, when will rookie quarterback\u00a0Jaxson Dart<\/a>\u00a0make his debut start?<\/p>\n

Analyzing the Giants’ schedule provides hints as to when Daboll might locate the most fruitful opportunity to insert\u00a0Dart<\/a>\u00a0into the lineup. For example, if the East Rutherford based club drops their opening four contests, the postseason isn’t within reach. Daboll’s job security would undoubtedly come into question, but that’s a different topic.<\/p>\n

The Week 5 matchup versus the\u00a0New Orleans Saints<\/a>\u00a0is among the easiest on the Giants’ schedule and could represent Dart’s best early-season opportunity. The\u00a0Saints<\/a>\u00a0are expected to be in contention for the No. 1 overall selection in the\u00a02026 NFL Draft<\/a>, given their lackluster quarterback situation.<\/p>\n

Getting Dart his first experience versus a lowly Saints squad could prove worthwhile. It would offer Dart a soft introduction to the NFL before the schedule gets extremely difficult again. The Giants play four top defenses in the league from Weeks 6-9, with a double-shot of the Super Bowl champion\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, the\u00a0Denver Broncos<\/a>, and\u00a0San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u00a0rounding out a tough midseason stretch.<\/p>\n

If the Giants manage to execute an upset within their opening four contests, they’ll remain in NFC East contention and won’t force a QB change in Week 5 before facing the Eagles-Broncos-Eagles-49ers consecutively. If Dart doesn’t convince Daboll to start him versus the Saints in early October, the former Ole Miss signal caller will need to continue exercising patience. The opportune moment won’t immediately arrive.<\/p>\n

The Week 13 primetime showdown versus the\u00a0New England Patriots<\/a>\u00a0stands out. It’s a late-season Monday Night Football contest against a rebuilding squad that owned the No. 4 overall selection in the\u00a02025 NFL Draft<\/a>. The Giants also possess a Week 14 bye, potentially offering Dart an opportunity to regroup and watch the tape after making his first career start versus a softer opponent.<\/p>\n

Dart would then possess four additional opportunities to conclude the season, offering the Giants a decent Year One sample size. Daboll should attempt to get his rookie signal-caller into the lineup as early as realistically possible, but that Week 13 match-up with the Patriots should be earmarked as the absolute latest date on the timeline.<\/p>\n

The Giants’ primary 2025 goal is to offer Dart an opportunity to prove he’s a legitimate franchise quarterback. That can\u2019t get lost in the shuffle of Daboll and Schoen trying to salvage their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0New York Giants\u00a0revealed their\u00a02025 season schedule\u00a0on Wednesday. The NFL wasn’t kind to the Giants, who enter the campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,7,13,56,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-53762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jaxson-dart","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114515415098345248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762","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=53762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}