The New York Giants have been pretty stagnant on who the starting quarterback will be for the 2025 season. Russell Wilson has been given the nod, but with each passing preseason game, the drama is starting to unfold on whether that was the right decision.
With one more game to go on Thursday night in the preseason finale against the New England Patriots, there is one more chance for the QB depth chart to shift. Can a new name be added to the first-string, or will everything stay the same? Furthermore, what does this season look like for each of the Giants' QB room?
Let's break it down.
Giants will turn to all three quarterbacks in 2025
No matter what happens this season, ESPN's Dan Graziano believes least two of the three quarterbacks will see time this season as the starting quarterback. He suggests the most likely outcome is:
"The Giants struggle, Wilson looks as meh as he has the past three seasons and Dart takes over as the starter in the first half of the season."
However, for the sake of argument, Wilson, Jaxson Dart, and Jameis Winston will inevitably each see some time, as this team can either be fantastically great or historically bad, and there is no in between.
Wilson will get the start to the regular season, and this prediction will be to lead this team through week five to a 2-3 record. After capitalizing on a great preseason and a newfound confidence from Giants fans that this team is competitive again, No. 3 will lead this squad to two NFC East wins to start the year over Washington and Dallas. Then, the losing streak starts with Kansas City in primetime, the Los Angeles Chargers, and then a terrible loss to the New Orleans Saints.
Enter Winston, and his tenure as the Giants QB will be the shortest of the trio. Dart should be the next in line, but Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll will likely go with the experienced hand to get them out of a rut. It won't work, as weeks six and seven are the reigning Super Bowl champs in Philadelphia and the rising Denver Broncos.
Now, the third and final quarterback used this season will be the eventual franchise quarterback of the future, Jaxson Dart. The rookie enters the fold with seven weeks of prep and learning from the two veteran throwers ahead of him. He comes out in week eight against Philadelphia, much like his Ole Miss predecessor, Eli Manning, did in 2004.
The Dart experience will lead this team back into the playoffs as he takes a 2-5 football team on a run to finish the year at 11-6, only losing to the Green Bay Packers the rest of the season. His performance is great enough to win him Rookie of the Year and cement his legacy in Giants lore. Tommy Devito, unfortunately, never sees the field.