EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Jaxson Dart's second preseason performance for the New York Giants might have been even better than the first, which was pretty good in its own right.
Dart went 14-of-16 passing for 137 yards with a passing touchdown and another score rushing on Saturday night in his first game at MetLife Stadium against the rival New York Jets. The first-round pick completed his final 13 passes and led the Giants on a pair of touchdown drives to begin the second half of a 31-12 win.
«He executed well,» coach Brian Daboll said of his young quarterback's performance.
Dart, the 25th pick in this year's draft, keeps passing the tests thrown at him by his own coach. Daboll threw him into Saturday night's game for one random play in the middle of a second-quarter drive in place of starter Russell Wilson.
Dart threw a screen pass for 30 yards to tight end Theo Johnson before returning to the sideline.
«I was like, all right, I didn't know that I was going to go in for one play and then come back out,» Dart said. «So I think that that's just [that] he's making up scenarios where you never know when your number's going to be called, and you got to be ready for that. He's done it in practices. So I think that that kind of taught me that I need to continue to warm up on the sideline. You just never know when things like that are going to happen.»
Daboll said he told nobody, not even his coaches, that he was going to do that Saturday. It's all part of the quarterback development plan that he's created for Dart, who has incrementally improved throughout the summer.
It has led to Dart having the look of a franchise quarterback in his first two preseason games. He's a combined 26-of-35 for 291 yards with two touchdowns passing
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