Giants 2025 Season in Review

Nine rushing touchdowns from a rookie quarterback — Jaxson Dart finished twelfth in the entire league in rushing scores, more than most starting running backs. That's the headline buried inside a four-and-13 season. Here's how the Giants quietly built a top-five rushing attack, why the defense couldn't get off the field on the ground, and the one rookie number that frames everything. Four wins, 13 losses, last in the NFC East, no playoffs. The Giants got muffed in the standings — but the tape underneath is more interesting than the record.

Start with the team by the numbers. Offensively, the Giants finished +13.3 in total expected points added — how much their snaps improved scoring chances versus an average offense — ranking seventeenth. League median. The defense is where it falls apart: +90.2 expected points added allowed, and on defense you want that number negative. Bottom eight in football. Takeaways told the same story — 15 all year, nine interceptions and six fumble recoveries, 20-fifth. And this was a boom-or-bust roster top to bottom. They lost by one in Denver in Week 7, smashed the Eagles 34 to 17 in Week 6, then got run off the field in New England 15 to 33 in Week 13. Same team, wildly different versions, week to week.

Now let's talk about the passing offense. The Giants threw for 217.8 yards per game with a passing expected points added of −4.6 — league average output, nineteenth, 40-fourth percentile. The bigger problem was protection: 48 sacks allowed on 627 dropbacks, a 7.7 percent sack rate that lands in the worst third of the league. The story under center was the rookie. Jaxson Dart started 14 games, threw for 2272 yards, 15 touchdowns, five interceptions, and completed 63.7 percent against an expected 65.8 — −2 versus expectation, 20-seventh among qualified starters. Rough on accuracy, but the flashes were real. Week 7 in Denver, third and 17 in the fourth quarter, Dart hit Theo Johnson on a short middle route that turned into a 41 yard touchdown — 29 yards after the catch, a +6 point oh four expected points swing on a single snap. That's the rookie ceiling. The floor was the 20-seventh-ranked accuracy. Both showed up, often in the same game.

Now let's dig into the rushing offense. 2197 rushing yards, 4.3 per carry, and a rushing expected points added of +14.6 — fifth in the league, 80-eighth percentile. Top-five run game. The catch: it was a true committee by necessity. Rookie Cam Skattebo, the most explosive ground signal on the roster, played only eight games before going down — 101 carries, 410 yards, five touchdowns, +43 rush yards over expected. Once he was out, Tyrone Tracy carried the volume and Devin Singletary handled the goal line. But the real engine was Dart's legs. 86 carries, 487 yards, nine rushing touchdowns from the quarterback. That's what dragged a committee backfield into a top-five run unit.

Next up, the pass defense. The Giants allowed 229.9 passing yards per game and a passing expected points added allowed of +16.4 — and remember on defense you want that number negative. 50-third percentile. Right in the middle. They generated 39 sacks, fifteenth in the league, 50-sixth percentile — decent. The real wound was takeaways: just nine interceptions all season, boom-or-bust ball production. When the secondary did create a moment, it was massive. Week 6 against the Eagles, leading 27 to 17 in the fourth quarter, Cor'Dale Flott jumped a Jalen Hurts pass in the red zone and took it 68 yards the other way — −8.85 expected points for Philadelphia, snuffing out a touchdown drive and icing the game. That play is the season in miniature. Capable of elite moments, just not nearly enough of them.

And the run defense. This is where the Giants got absolutely muffed. 2495 rushing yards allowed across 17 games — 146.8 per game — and a rushing expected points added allowed of +73.8. On a defense, that's catastrophic. Third percentile. Basically the worst run defense in football. They gave up 0.17 expected points per carry, meaning every single handoff against them, on average, moved the offense forward. 21 rushing touchdowns allowed. No individual to single out, because the failure was collective — gap discipline, tackling, second-level fits, all of it. Steady floor of bad, no week it got fixed. You cannot win four games when opposing teams know they can just hand it off.