Russell Wilson is a quarter-Arrière starting from the New York giants, Brian Daboll reaffirmed on Saturday. There is no plan for this to change anytime soon, said the giant coach.
The non -said final part of this sentence is … no matter how much Jaxson Dart looks good at the moment.
The recruit QB was excellent throughout the training camp and the pre-season, and with all the performances like the one he delivered on Saturday, he fans of a quarter-arre “debate”. However, the giants remained firmly in their plan to give Dart time on the bench to develop, and this means that the QB1 work is that of Wilson … for as long as he can hang on to it.
The fact that the QB1 question is even asked is indicative of the situation in which Wilson is. The former Seahawks star and Super Bowl champion clings to this starting work while trying to retain the arrival of the future of the franchise. Wilson is an aging quarter in his third team (Broncos, Steelers, Giants) in three seasons, and, according to those who take place in the NFL, he is definitively down.
In Mike Sando’s annual “quarter-arre”, in which Sando interviewed 50 coaches and leaders of the NFL for their opinions on the current harvest of quarter-back from the League (excluding recruits), Wilson arrived at n ° 26 after taking another tumble in the ranking. It was a gradual drop for Wilson, who went from Tired for First (2020) to the fourth (2021) in the eighth (2022), in the 16th (2023) in the 22nd (2024) and finally in the 26th this season. This puts Wilson at level 4 for the first time in his career.
Are these rankings fair? It is questionable, although Wilson is there to prove this season that he always deserves to be discussed among the best in the League. We will not know with certainty if he can accomplish this mission until the regular season is underway, but so far this summer, Wilson has not been brilliant in earth or bad. He was mainly competent, which needs the giants of the post after a few recent difficult seasons. If Wilson can occur at this level and direct a respectable and competent offense, this may not guarantee an increase in QB levels of Sando next year, but it could mean that it can stop its shift in the ranking, while allowing giants to develop a dart at its own pace.
Can Wilson deliver for himself and for the Giants? Sando levels explore this question.
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What was said
The biggest point to remember from what coaches and leaders had to say about Wilson is that at 36, he fights against the ultimate adversary: age.
“He can still do certain things, but I think he only decreases. Some of the throws he was good is no longer there for him,” said a defensive coordinator. “I didn’t feel like I was tearing the throws. Even his deep throws were like aerial stuff, hoping that George Pickens, Gree-receptor in aceoners) made a game. ”
Another defensive coordinator said it more frank: “What he had who had magical about him – the ability to create moving games – has disappeared,” said the DC.
“If you are a quarter -Arrière who must create time – instead of the one who knows where everything is, knocks on his rear foot and launches it – then that’s what happens to you,” added a defensive coach.
Wilson was not just fighting the father’s time either. He also fights perception. No matter what you think about how his game has aged, it is difficult to defend the perspective of the coaches who have chosen to go from him in the last five seasons: Pete Carroll, Sean Payton and Mike Tomlin are all potential coaches of the temple of the fame of professional football.
For all the negative points in the ranking, there were a few positive points, with a head coach noting that Wilson is still a starter despite the team situations he has known in recent seasons.
“He has skins on the wall for a two-minute offense, and you have to give him credit for this,” said a head coach. “I think he is a legitimate starter. I want him to play better, but he has been in three offenses in the past three years. You know how it goes. “
Comparable veterans
There is really only one QB comparable to compose here, and don’t you know: it is the QB which exchanged cities with Wilson and was the other large quarter-arre-free agent that the giants continued this offseason enough. Of course, we are talking about Aaron Rodgers.
After the New York Jets went from Rodgers, 41, after two seasons, the quarterrier took its time to decide its future. The giants showed interest in Rodgers, but in the midst of the uncertainty of what would be the ultimate decision of Rodgers, the Giants signed Jameis Winston and Wilson and drafted Dart – all before Rodgers signed a one -year agreement with the Steelers in June.
Like Wilson, Rodgers saw its position in the QB levels of Sando Chutter. His average level vote dropped a full point compared to last year, which was more than twice as large than for any other player – the Giants quarterrière and the current Colts signal Daniel Jones fell by almost half. Rodgers played the 2024 season with the jets after his torn Achilles return. It did not go well, because the jets went 5-12, although the Rodgers figures are decent; He completed 63% of his passes for 3,897 yards and 28 affected against 11 interceptions.
This season, Rodgers will represent, in some respects, the road not taken for the Giants. So it will be fascinating from the Giants’ point of view to see how he behaves in Pittsburgh against how Wilson lifts (or trains) the giants.
While Rodgers is the cleanest comparison for Wilson, given their similar falls, another interesting veteran to consider is the quarter of Los Angeles Rams Matthew Stafford. The Giants also showed a strong interest in bringing the 37 -year -old staff to New York this offseason, but he ended up reaching a popularization agreement to stay in Los Angeles. Interestingly, after 11 consecutive seasons as level 2 QB, Stafford made its level 1 debut this year. This occurs after Stafford and the Rams went 10-7, won the NFC West and gave the possible Super Bowl Eagles champion a race for their money in the divisional round of the playoffs last year. Perhaps the Giants have never had the opportunity to acquire Stafford, but there is another QB interesting to watch from afar this season.
History of giants
As we mentioned, the giants are looking for a coherence at the quarter-Arrière post. They haven’t had this for some time: the last time the Giants had a QB level 2, it was in 2018 with Eli Manning. The Super Bowl’s double winner fell at level 3 in 2019. This is the year when the Giants drafted Jones with the choice n ° 6 in the hope that he would take the post for the years to come.
Jones played six seasons from top to bottom in New York who were dominated by coach changes and his own injuries. While Jones won a lucrative contract extension after the 2022 qualifying series, it was his strong season for Big Blue. You probably don’t need to remember what happened next.
As mentioned earlier, Jones remains a quarter-back level 4 while he continues a new start with the colts.
Speaking of Jones, it should be mentioned in the middle of all the media threw around DART at the moment that Jones also delivered a strong pre-season during his recruit year before not meeting expectations. The giants hope that Dart will not suffer the same fate. But they also hope that they will not know exactly how good DART is before much later this season or even in 2026.
This would mean that Wilson played well enough to keep the recruit on the bench. And, hey, it could even mean that Wilson could be at level 3 of the Sando ranking next year. You never know.
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