Jaxson Dart 2025 Season in Review

Jaxson Dart finished his rookie season as the number 13 quarterback in total PPR scoring and the number 14 quarterback in PPR per game — and for a kid who didn't even start Week 1, that's a story. Dart took over a four-and-thirteen Giants team and immediately became the most fantasy-relevant thing about that offense. Not because he was lighting up the passing chart. Because his legs turned every red-zone trip into a touchdown threat. He racked up 9 rushing touchdowns on 86 carries and 487 rushing yards — the number 12 mark in rushing scores across the entire league, quarterbacks and running backs combined. The real-football Dart was a flawed but dangerous runner playing behind shaky protection on a team that couldn't stop anybody. The fantasy Dart was a streaming-tier starter whose floor was propped up almost entirely by his cleats, not his arm.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because they explain the ranking. Through 14 games he threw for 2,272 yards, 15 touchdowns and 5 interceptions — modest volume, and the efficiency underneath was rough. His adjusted net yards per attempt was 5.9, ranking 26th among qualified passers, and his completion percentage over expected was minus 2, ranking 27th — bottom-six in the league at actually delivering accurate footballs. He was sacked 35 times behind a Giants line that allowed 48 sacks at a 7.7 percent rate. The rushing production salvaged the fantasy line: 17.3 PPR points per game, with that 9-touchdown floor doing the heavy lifting. And he was genuinely boom-or-bust — four games above 23 PPR points, but three outings at 0.3 or lower, including a zero against the Vikings in Week 16 and a minus 0.3 in his Week 2 cameo. When the rushing touchdowns came, he was a top-five weekly quarterback. When they didn't, he was unstartable.

The play that captures the season came in Week 7 at Denver: third and 17 from the Broncos' 41, fourth quarter, Giants up 19 to 8. Dart dropped back, found Theo Johnson on a short middle route, and Johnson took it the distance for a 41-yard touchdown — a six-point swing in expected points on a third-and-long conversion. That was Dart's ceiling game, a 28.4 PPR explosion with three passing touchdowns and a rushing score. And the Giants still lost by one. That's the rookie year in a sentence: real flashes, real rushing production, real fantasy usefulness on his best days — wrapped inside a passing profile that graded bottom-six in the league by the efficiency measures that matter most.