Jaxson Dart's father comes to son's defense after analyst questions Giants rookie's future with team

Jaxson Dart’s begetter volition not perceive immoderate much slander astir his son.

The New York Giants snapped their nine-game losing streak connected Sunday aft blowing retired the Las Vegas Raiders, 34-10, wherever Dart had 2 rushing scores successful a stellar day.

However, immoderate Giants fans weren’t excessively blessed astir the triumph considering a nonaccomplishment would’ve guaranteed them the No. 1 prime successful the 2026 NFL Draft. The Giants tin inactive prime astatine No. 1, but they request the Raiders to bushed the Kansas City Chiefs, portion besides losing their ain matchup to the Dallas Cowboys successful Week 18.

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Jaxson Dart of the New York Giants speaks with his parents during pregame warm-ups anterior to the crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium connected Sept. 14, 2025 successful Arlington, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

Either way, the Giants can’t prime little than No. 2 wide adjacent April, and 1 erstwhile New York backmost believes Dart isn’t the "long-term answer" for the franchise contempt showing signs of it successful his rookie year.

Danny Kanell, who was drafted by the Giants successful the 4th circular of the 1996 NFL Draft and played six years successful the league, was blunt with his appraisal of the existent franchise backmost for his erstwhile team.

"I don’t cognize if Jaxson Dart is the semipermanent reply for the Giants. When I deliberation of a first-round draught pick, I deliberation it’s idiosyncratic who you should representation for 10 to 12 years is going to beryllium your guy. I inactive haven’t seen the improvement arsenic a passer. He’s inactive moving the football, and they’re inactive designing runs for him. But I privation to spot him instrumentality that adjacent measurement arsenic a passer, and I conscionable haven’t seen it yet," Kanell said connected CBS Sports.

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Brandon Dart, Jaxson’s father, caught upwind of the clip connected societal media and didn’t discarded immoderate clip responding.

He did truthful successful a raunchy manner.

"Bro, Eat a Fat One!" helium wrote connected X successful effect to Kanell.

Dart has played 13 games for the Giants this season, 11 of them starts aft ex-head manager Brian Daboll made the power from Russell Wilson aft 3 games to the Ole Miss merchandise they traded backmost into the archetypal circular successful April to acquire. Dart went connected to triumph his archetypal commencement against the Los Angeles Chargers, and aft a woeful show against the New Orleans Saints the pursuing week, Dart was fundamentally a household sanction aft upsetting the Philadelphia Eagles astatine MetLife Stadium.

Jaxson Dart of the New York Giants makes a walk during the archetypal 4th of the crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders astatine Allegiant Stadium connected Dec. 28, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward/Getty Images)

It’s been pugnacious sledding for Dart and the Giants since then, though, losing aggregate games by blowing fourth-quarter leads, portion the rookie besides dealt with 2 missed games owed to concussion protocols — a blistery taxable among galore critiquing the mode helium consistently takes hits this year.

There’s nary uncertainty Dart needs to proceed developing, but with the enactment successful flux considering they request to prosecute a caller caput manager this offseason, who knows however Dart volition beryllium with a perchance caller strategy and enactment successful the gathering successful coming years.

As such, immoderate judge the Giants should commercialized Dart and commencement anew with a antithetic backmost hand-picked by the caller caput manager that lands successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. But again, Dart has lone 13 games nether his loop and his stats are telling with what he’s capable to do.

Dart has accounted for 22 full touchdowns, including 9 rushing scores aft his two-touchdown crippled successful Las Vegas. He has 5 interceptions and 4 fumbles arsenic well.

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Those rushing touchdowns are besides tied for 2nd successful the NFL among quarterbacks, with lone Buffalo Bills MVP Josh Allen having much with 14 this season. Dart has besides thrown for 2,042 yards with a 63.2% completion complaint and his 58.1 QBR ranks 15th successful the NFL — amended than the likes of Caleb Williams, Jared Goff, Trevor Lawrence and Jalen Hurts.

Time volition archer what the Giants person planned for Dart, but he’s received glowing praise from teammates and coaches for however helium has been successful his archetypal NFL season. Then again, the NFL is simply a concern that tin beryllium cold, arsenic we’ve seen galore times implicit the years.

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