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Giants news, 5/30: Jevon Holland on his new surroundings, Jaxson Dart, Evan Neal, more headlines

New York Giants headlines for Friday

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Giants OTAs Notes: QB snap counts, plus Jaxson Dart impressions | SNY.tv

Confident and comfortable were the best two words to describe Dart at rookie camp. The same ones fit after Wednesday. He has this, as Okereke said, “aura” about him. You can tell he’s authentic and the type of person guys want to be around – not because of status or money, but because of his moxy.

Nothing about his interactions with teammates seems fake. The Giants broke their pre-practice stretch and Dart went up, high-fiving and tapping most of his teammates on the helmet. He’s the first to celebrate with guys after a catch or score. After every drill, he’s talking to someone else. I covered Zach Wilson with the Jets. Teammates often criticized him because they never felt he was one of them. There is a very obvious difference between the interactions you see with Dart and his guys, compared to Wilson. Most notable: Guys are also routinely coming up to him, too.

The TD pass all Giants fans shared with other this week

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— New York Giants (@Giants) May 28, 2025

Giants’ QB room lacks 2025 identity with Daniel Jones long gone | New York Daily News

Change always brings new faces and some discomfort, which requires an adjustment period. So it’s natural that the Giants are learning about their new players and team this spring. But turning over the quarterback position over is different, especially given what the Giants paid Jones and how much they believed in him and built around him for so long until they moved on.

Schoen and Daboll have staked their reputations and jobs on the quarterback room being improved by adding Wilson, Winston and Dart as replacements. Right now, though, the Giants’ quarterback room does not look obviously improved for 2025. At the moment, with the hope of Dart’s development off in the distance, the Giants’ quarterback room looks crowded and pedestrian. Or maybe it’s just different.

Sando: My favorite offseason move by every NFL team | The Athletic

Selecting Abdul Carter with the third pick in the draft and still having their choice of available quarterbacks when the Giants selected Jaxson Dart at No. 25 showed the team read the market correctly. Whether Dart will succeed is another question entirely, and history is not on the Giants’ side (in the salary-cap era, which dates to 1993, only three of 15 quarterbacks drafted in the first round after pick No. 19 signed long-term extensions with their original teams). Even so, the process seemed sound for the Giants, a welcome change from the previous two offseasons, which featured a Daniel Jones extension (2023) and Saquon Barkley’s departure (2024).

2025 NFL offseason: NFC teams’ best and worst deals, picks | ESPN.com

The superlative: Most likely to throw deep more often

Their new veteran passers will push it downfield. Over the past three years, Russell Wilson has thrown 13.4% of his passes 20 or more yards downfield, the fourth-highest rate in football. Jameis Winston is just behind in sixth. Between them is Josh Allen, the quarterback New York coach Brian Daboll helped mold into a superstar in Buffalo.

Those veterans will eventually give way to first-round pick Jaxson Dart, who also pushes the envelope. He ranked third in the nation in deep pass rate in 2024, with a whopping 21.9% of his throws traveling 20 or more yards downfield. He ranked 14th in Total QBR on those throws among passers with a minimum of 50 deep attempts. He wasn’t playing in the most pro-style offense at Ole Miss and wasn’t often asked to go deep through a progression, but there’s no doubting his ability to sling it downfield.

Howard Cross latest Giants legend to address the squad

“My house, my place, my team”

Howard Cross speaks to the team pic.twitter.com/uoyeazPqqF

— New York Giants (@Giants) May 29, 2025

Serby: It’s now or never for Giants’ band of underachievers | New York Post

The 2025 Giants haven’t lost a game, Russell Wilson hasn’t thrown a pick, everybody showed up for the latest OTAs. Welcome to May.

September will be here before they know it, and how much Wilson has left and how long he will be holding the fort for Jaxson Dart will begin revealing itself then.

4 2022 NFL Draft Picks on the Verge of Getting Cut in Training Camp | Bleacher Report

Moving forward, and with a healthy Andrew Thomas, Evan Neal’s best chance to stick around in New York is at guard. That said, the organization added Jon Runyan and Greg Van Roten during free agency last spring and drafted Marcus Mbow a month ago, giving the team a couple of starters and a backup at the position.

So, even at a different position, Neal faces an uphill battle to make the 53-man roster during training camp.

2025 NFL Roster Rankings: Strengths, weaknesses and X-factors for every starting lineup | PFF

Biggest strength in 2024: Defensive line. Led by standouts Dexter Lawrence and Brian Burns, the Giants’ defensive line ranked 11th in the NFL in PFF pass-rush grade last season. They likely would’ve placed higher had Lawrence’s season not been cut short in Week 13 due to injury. The additions of talented rookies Abdul Carter and Darius Alexander could make this one of the most dangerous units in the NFL in 2025.

New face masks for Spiderman Burns

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— LPG – NYG (@LicensePlateGuy) May 29, 2025

Giants’ Jordon Riley swaps jersey numbers with Roy Robertson-Harris | USAToday.com

Defensive lineman Jordan Riley relinquished his No. 95 to incoming free-agent defensive end Ray Robertson-Harris. Riley will now wear No. 99.

NY Giants OTA takeaways: The impact of Darius Slayton’s staying power | The Record

The safety pairing of Jevon Holland and Tyler Nubin is going to be fun to watch. Antrel Rolle-Kenny Phillips vibes for me.

“He’s a really good kid. He really is and he’s got great things ahead of him,” Holland said of Nubin. “And I’m here to help him bring that out.”

Giants hire Darien Harris as director of player engagement | USAToday.com

The New York Giants made another addition to their front office this week, hiring Darien Harris as the director of player engagement. Harris is a former linebacker for the Michigan State Spartans, who was part of the 2015 team that made the College Football Playoffs. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2015 and achieved his master’s degree in marketing research in 2019.

NFL announces five nationally televised preseason games | Pro Football Talk

Each of the NFL’s five main TV partners will have a nationally televised game in the preseason, and today the NFL announced the schedule for those games. Two nationally televised games will take place in Week Three of the preseason: The Patriots will play at the Giants on Thursday, August 21 at 8 p.m. ET on Prime Video, and the Vikings will play at the Titans on Friday, August 22 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.