Jaxson Dart Camp Update — August 23: Seventeen of twenty-one at Miami

Jaxson Dart went 17 of 21 with one interception in Thursday's joint practice against the Dolphins, as charted by Ed Valentine at Big Blue View — Matt Sidney at GMenHQ logged the same session 16 of 22, so pick your charter, the shape holds — and the throw that made the trip worthwhile was a 50-yard touchdown to rookie Malachi Fields, dropped in down the sideline after a pocket escape, per Anthony Rivardo at Empire Sports Media. Rivardo described the lone interception as a miscommunication with the receiver rather than a bad read. John Harbaugh's assessment pointed straight at the thing this file cares about: "Those are good chunk plays for us, and we had a number of chunk gains off of play action." In a session where the heat index cleared a hundred degrees and fights kept interrupting periods, the second-year quarterback was the cleanest thing on the field.

The spread of his targets is its own note: three completions to tight end Isaiah Likely in 11-on-11, deep completions to Fields, even a one-on-one touchdown to Darnell Mooney, per Matt Citak at the team's site. Saturday, Dart sat entirely — the Giants held him out of the 26 to three win with the rest of the starters, per Michael Haney and Patricia Traina at Giants On SI, and Jameis Winston handled the night. After the tent-trip scare of the opener, a week that ends with the quarterback rested and unhit counts as a good week on the health ledger too.

Back in June our preview drew Dart in two strokes — the legs were the floor, the arm was the project — and a 17-of-21 afternoon built on downfield and play-action throws against another team's defense is the project advancing, seven days after the protection breakdowns that were the opener's warning label.

Watch next: whether Dart plays in Friday's finale against the Jets or has seen his last preseason snap, and whether the blitz-pickup fixes hold whenever he is next behind a live rush. We'll check after cut day.

_Data via nflverse._