Jaxson Dart’s season is over, and the Giants chose the clearest path forward.
After Dart was knocked out of Monday Night Football against the Los Angeles Rams, the initial expectation was that he’d miss time. The next day brought a tougher reality: the knee injury was more serious than first believed, with a season-ending outcome already in play. Now, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network says Dart and the Giants have decided on surgery.
“Giants QB Jaxson Dart is expected to have knee surgery that will lead to a full recovery but end his 2026 season, sources told me and @MikeGarafolo,” Rapoport reports. “Dart has been soliciting opinions on the injury.
And the ACL is intact. But surgery is coming.”
That detail matters. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Dart did not tear his ACL, but his MCL, PCL, and meniscus are damaged. In other words, this isn’t the kind of injury the Giants could simply manage and hope to patch together later.
The math behind the decision is pretty straightforward. Even if Dart had gone the rehab route, a return in 2026 would have come so late that it likely wouldn’t have helped a playoff push. That made the surgery option the safer, smarter call.
Dart is still a young quarterback with a lot ahead of him, and the Giants are treating the injury with that bigger picture in mind. Instead of trying to squeeze in a late-season comeback that could carry more risk than reward, the plan is to let him recover fully and aim him at 2027.
It’s a brutal break for Dart and for a Giants roster that is still building around young talent. But with Dart, Malik Nabers, and Cam Skattebo all part of that future, the organization clearly decided that protecting the long game mattered more than chasing a rushed return at the end of a season that would probably already be out of reach.
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