Jaxson Dart’s knee injury on Monday night sparked a wave of reaction online, but it wasn’t just the play itself that got people talking. It was what happened after.
On a third-down pass attempt, Rams defenders Byron Young and Josaiah Stewart collided with Dart, and his left knee bent at an awkward angle. Once the broadcast moved on, slow-motion replays of the hit started spreading fast.
But the attention didn’t stop there. Fans watching noticed several Giants teammates near Dart while he was being tended to, and that scene quickly got compared to what happened the night before when Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels dislocated his elbow against the Cowboys.
Video from that injury showed Daniels’ offensive linemen glance at him on the ground before heading toward the locker room without stopping. Once Dart went down, the contrast between the two moments began circulating almost immediately. One account even lined up clips from both nights side by side.
The reaction was instant and loud.
“None of them went to Jayden’s birthday party,” one fan joked.
“Because Dart is a leader, Jayden is an egotistical child,” another claimed.
“This is bad man, Dak showed more concern,” a third fan wrote.
“Nah fr I peeped his teammates walking away too, shit was cruel mane,” a fourth added.
The comparison hit harder because Dart and Daniels know each other well away from the field. The two have trained together since high school, and now they’re NFC East rivals.
After Daniels’ elbow injury last November, Dart spoke publicly about it and said, “First of all, prayers to him. You definitely hate to see that and you send prayers for him for his recovery.”
Still, a few seconds of video can only tell so much. Monday’s clips don’t settle anything about either player, and they certainly don’t capture the full story of what each team was dealing with in the moment. But once the side-by-side comparison started making the rounds, fans had already made up their minds about what they thought they saw.
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