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Jaxson Dart Trade Already Showing Eli Manning Like Payoff For Giants

Bonisiwe Shabane
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jaxson dart trade already showing eli manning like payoff for giants

The Giants are even more desperate to be right about an Ole Miss quarterback named Jaxson Dart than they were with an Ole Miss quarterback named Eli Manning, who would become the greatest at... More desperate? Yeah, they are. When Ernie Accorsi made the trade to get Eli on Draft Day in 2004, the Giants were just a little over three years removed from their last Super Bowl, even if it was a... It’s different now, just because the Giants have been one of the two worst teams in pro football — along with … wait for it … the Jets — for a decade. And we are moving up on 14 years since the Giants last appearance in the Super Bowl, the second one they got off Bill Belichick and Tom Brady and the Patriots.

In that time, the Giants have won a single playoff game, against the Vikings in January of 2023. Now they’re in a stretch where they’ve won just three of their last 20 games and are 0-3 going into this Sunday’s game against the Chargers. So Brian Daboll gives the ball to a new Ole Miss kid, in the hopes that he can at least change the way Giants fans are looking at this team and this season. It is hard to believe that with the schedule at which the Giants are looking the rest of the way that Dart can save the season. But if he shows enough arm and talent and even swagger — and if they can keep him in one piece — he might be able to save the jobs of Daboll and general... “It didn’t matter to me if we won with Russell Wilson, because I knew that in the long run Wilson didn’t matter,” a Giants fan I know said to me on Friday.

The NY Giants drafted a quarterback in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft but it wasn't when or who people might have thought they'd do so. The Giants spent the third overall pick on Abdul Carter and then later traded back into the first round to snag Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart. Dart isn't the first Ole Miss quarterback to suit up for the G-Men, as, once upon a time, the Giants made a deal for Eli Manning and he went on to play for them... Now, half a decade after Manning hung up the cleats, a new Ole Miss signal-caller is coming to the Big Apple to play for the Giants and it's Jaxson Dart. Manning recorded a video for the next Giants franchise quarterback and it'll get fans all sorts of fired up. "Jaxson, congratulations on being drafted by the New York Giants.

Obviously, there's a strong connection between Ole Miss quarterbacks and the Giants going back to Charlie Conerly and I'm excited that that tradition will continue with you," Manning said. "It's been an honor and a lot of fun rooting for you these past three years at Ole Miss and I look forward to rooting for you with the Giants for the next 15... After the video, Dart seemed emotional, noting, "That's special to me" and discussing how Manning has been a role model for the newest Giants quarterback. Giants fans likely loved the image of Dart spending the next 15 years in New York wearing the blue and white and hopefully having even more success than Manning did in his 16 years... The New York Giants are preparing to kick off a new era with Jaxson Dart as their next franchise quarterback. The rookie will have to wait a while behind Russell Wilson before he gets his chance to take over, but that gives him plenty of time to sit, grow, and develop before stepping into...

Dart also has plenty of resources being lent to him during this developmental process. In addition to having Wilson as his teammate and mentor, the Giants’ rookie benefits from his long-running relationship with franchise legend Eli Manning. As a product of the Ole Miss Rebels, Dart got to know Manning well during his collegiate career. The last time the Giants landed an Ole Miss quarterback in the first round of the draft was in 2004 when they traded for Manning. Manning has remained involved both with the Ole Miss college football program and with the Giants’ organization. That has allowed him to develop a “genuine connection” with Dart, as the rookie described during an interview with Sports Illustrated at the NFLPA Rookie Premiere:

The New York Giants have been trying for years to find the quarterback to replace Eli Manning — and they’re hoping they found their guy in Jaxson Dart, taken in the first round of... The Giants traded back into the first round to select Dart with the 25th overall pick. The Giants shared a video of Dart reacting to a message from Manning, congratulating him and preparing him for life with the franchise with which Manning spent his entire career. From one former Ole Miss QB to another: Eli Manning welcomes Jaxson Dart to the Giants. pic.twitter.com/UIj2Fix9Vc Dart played well in 2024 for the Ole Miss Rebels, boosting his draft stock.

He completed 276 of 398 passes (69.3%) for 4,279 yards, 29 touchdowns, and six interceptions. He also added 124 rushing attempts for 495 yards (4.0 yards per carry) and three rushing touchdowns. The New York Giants traded back into the first round of the 2025 NFL draft to select quarterback Jaxson Dart on Thursday. With Dart getting picked by New York, he follows in the footsteps of franchise great Eli Manning, who also played quarterback at Ole Miss before becoming the Giants signal-caller. After Dart was drafted, Manning sent a congratulatory message to the new Giants rookie quarterback. "Congratulations on being drafted by the New York Giants," Manning said in a video to Dart.

"Obviously there's a strong connection from Ole Miss quarterbacks and the Giants, going back to Charlie Conerly, and I'm excited that that tradition will continue with you. I'm not going to sit here and tell you what a great organization the Giants are, it will not take you long to figure that out by yourself. It's been an honor and a lot of fun rooting for you these past three years at Ole Miss, and I look forward to rooting for you for the Giants for the next 15... Dart had already established a relationship with Manning at Ole Miss, and that relationship should continue to develop with Dart becoming a Giant. From one former Ole Miss QB to another: Eli Manning welcomes Jaxson Dart to the Giants. pic.twitter.com/UIj2Fix9Vc

Even before the New York Giants made Jaxson Dart the 25th overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft, reporters mentioned how Dart could follow in the footsteps of Eli Manning as an Ole Miss... During a recent chat with Ian O'Connor of The Athletic, Dart admitted that "it would be a privilege to" lead the Giants to a pair of Super Bowl championships as Manning did during his... However, Dart also suggested he wants to leapfrog Manning on the list of the greatest quarterbacks in franchise history. "But if somebody asked me that question, I’m going to tell them I’m going to bet on myself," Dart said when asked if he would "sign up for Eli’s two championship rings" during the... "And I see a bright future here of us winning a lot of games and us playing at the highest level. I’m going to bet on myself with that answer."

Giants head coach Brian Daboll confirmed on Wednesday that veteran Russell Wilson is the club's undisputed starting quarterback ahead of the upcoming season, and Wilson seemingly has embraced mentoring Dart as the 22-year-old learns... That said, Dart already sounds ready to handle the pressure that comes with being a QB1 for a team that calls the country's largest media market home. "I just think (New York) is a really unique place, and you never want to think that you’re bigger than anybody else, and you want to be able to rally a community," Dart told... "You saw it with the Knicks this year and what they did in the playoffs, and you got to see the support and the fans in the streets. That’s what I want to be a part of. I want to celebrate with the city and New Jersey as well.

If you want to be the best, you have to be elite at the (quarterback) position. People are just looking for answers, and they’re looking for some hope, and that’s what I feel like I can be here." There was plenty of talk in the build-up to the 2025 NFL Draft, where Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart would be selected in the first round. That question was answered as the New York Giants selected him with the 25th pick, having traded out of the second round to move up, trading with Houston. After breaking the great Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning program record in passing yards this past season, Dart will now follow in his footsteps to the Giants, hoping to do the same. Manning finished with two Super Bowl rings, which I'm sure Dart would snap your hand off if offered.

JAXSON DART 🎯🎯🎯📰: https://t.co/526S9dD1Nz pic.twitter.com/jd7nnuBZZq It's a great position for the Utah native who has no pressure to start with veterans Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston in the room, both signed during free agency. It gives Dart time to sit and learn, taking in knowledge from Super Bowl winner Wilson. Eli Manning will be around the organization as he did at times at Ole Miss. Dart and Eli speak during his time with the Rebels, and he reveals that he has taken plenty of advice from the legend of the Giants. It would be something if he could go on to break his records in New York as he did in Oxford.

The New York Giants are coming off a disastrous 3-14 season that saw them finish in last place in the NFC East. Poor quarterback play has been an issue for the Giants in recent seasons. The team has attempted to rectify the problem in the offseason. The Giants have brought in a pair of veterans in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston as stopgap quarterbacks. However, they also took a bold step up by selecting Jaxson Dart of Ole Miss with their second first-round pick. From one former Ole Miss QB to another: Eli Manning welcomes Jaxson Dart to the Giants.

pic.twitter.com/UIj2Fix9Vc — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 25, 2025 Dart was the second quarterback taken in the draft behind Cam Ward of Miami. The Tennessee Titans used the No. 1 pick to take Ward. Many observers expected Shedeur Sanders of Colorado to go shortly thereafter.

Sanders was not selected in the first round, but the Giants used the 25th pick to select Dart. The Giants have a strong tradition going back to the 1948 season with Ole Miss quarterbacks. Charlie Conerly played with the Giants from 1948 through 1961. He was a two-time Pro Bowler and he was a part of their 1956 NFL championship season.

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