The 2026 New York Giants have a completely different feel to them heading into the training camp session of the offseason. They have a veteran coach in John Harbaugh and a feeling of a competent franchise moving in the right direction. There are some questions about how the New York Giants offense will look and if it will match what Harbaugh had with the Baltimore Ravens.
New York Giants want Jaxson Dart to be able to run multiple offenses in 2026
Jan 8, 2026; Glendale, AZ, USA; Mississippi Rebels former quarterback Jaxson Dart in attendance against the Miami Hurricanes during the 2026 Fiesta Bowl and semifinal game of the College Football Playoff at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
New York Giants coach John Harbaugh appeared on The Dominique Foxworth Show and discussed his quarterback. Harbaugh is excited to use Dart in different ways and let the offense look different compared on the opponent.
“Jaxson’s capable of doing a lot of things. Like he can live in a lot of different worlds, football-wise. He can live in a power-running game, obviously, and a power-running game protects the quarterback because you can hand the ball off and get yards and make people defend that and keep them honest. Then, it opens up your play-action passing game. … That stuff, we’re gonna be in those worlds. But now we can also get in the gun or we can get in the pistol, and we can run RPOs, we can run quarterback-driven runs.”
While knowing that Jaxson Dart has a unique playstyle, there are a lot of similarities between Harbaugh’s quarterbacks. He explained that Jackson was able to attack defenses in multiple ways, and wants to get to that point with Dart.
“You say something like that to Lamar, and he kinda just looks at you like you’ve got three heads. It’s like, ‘No, I’m gonna play ball, I’m gonna play ball.’ I just knew, I trusted that he was gonna protect himself because he wants to be out there and he wants to play. It’s not the type of sport where – you can’t put yourself in bubble wrap.”
Jaxson Dart showed a lot of promise in his rookie season. In 14 games (12 starts), he completed 216 of 339 (63.7%) of his passes for 2,272 yards with 15 passing touchdowns to five interceptions. Dart also ran the ball 86 times for 487 yards (5.7 yards per attempt) with nine rushing touchdowns en route to finishing fourth in the 2025 Offensive Rookie of the Year voting. Even though it was successful, Dart needs to avoid big hits and manage to stay on the field.
It may not be a need to have Jaxson Dart be more cautious, but keeping him healthy could be the difference between a successful and unsuccessful season in 2026. The New York Giants have talent and a new coach in the organization, so it will be intriguing to see how Dart’s playstyle changes from Year 1 to Year 2.
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