What if the player everyone expected to sit on the bench and soak in the playbook suddenly becomes the team’s most exciting player? That’s New York Giants’ rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart . We spoke to ESPN’s draft analyst Matt Miller in an EssentiallySports Exclusive Interview to ask which rookie has made the biggest splash in Miller’s eyes. The first name that popped up in Miller’s mind was Dart.

“I mentioned Jaxson Dart. He’s playing exceptionally well. And to be thrown in, the expectation was that Russell Wilson would be the starter. You think that he’s going to come in and be a guy that sits for a year and kind of learns, and that was not the case with him. He was thrown out there after a couple weeks. He’s played exceptionally well.”

Dart’s rise has been nothing short

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