Samuel Butler might never have called an audible in the face of a blitz, but the English novelist wrote that “life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
The basis for a lot of preseason hype about the Giants is that Jaxson Dart is about to make a significant jump because a football adage tells us quarterbacks make their biggest improvements between their first and second seasons. And, if it is repeated often enough, it must be true, right?
The Post researched the 33 first-round quarterbacks drafted from 2016-24 to see how many actually took a Year 2 leap – or was it more like a baby step? – and how many went in the other direction.
Removing five instances where there is not enough data over the first two seasons to draw a conclusion, 19 of the other 28 experienced a spike in quarterback rating, including seven whose progress was dramatic. Of the nine who went in reverse, only one (Commanders’ Jayden Daniels) was limited by injury.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
