The New York Giants always had this move somewhere in their future.
They made it pretty quickly.
In Week 4, Russell Wilson is on the bench, and Jaxson Dart is the new starting quarterback.
The No. 25 overall pick out of Ole Miss gets his first start when the Giants play the Chargers on Sunday afternoon.
Wilson remained a captain for the opening coin toss, but when the game got underway, he had to watch as Dart took the QB snaps.
Why did the Giants bench Russell Wilson for Jaxson Dart?
Russell Wilson's performance hadn't been good enough.
He threw for 450 yards in a Week 2 loss to the Cowboys, but he bookended that with two brutally poor and inefficient outings that didn't really give the Giants any chance to win.
New York always knew that Dart would be its QB of the future. The only question was when the future would become the present.
Wilson didn't prove he could make the Giants a contender this season, and so there was no reason to ride him out any longer.
Giants coach Brian Daboll knows his job might be in jeopardy if this season continues to go down the tubes. But if New York can win with Dart, and if Daboll and Dart show a good chemistry, it might save the head coach's job, and it'll set the Giants up for a brighter future with Dart as the quarterback.
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