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The New York Giants are set to trade for Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy as they attempt to rebuild their signal-caller group in the wake of Jaxson Dart's season-ending injury
Dak Prescott's impressive home record in NFC East games is on the line as he faces Washington
The Giants have spent the better part of a decade looking for Eli Manning's replacement. The Saints have taken nearly as long trying to find life after Hall of Famer Drew Brees . Different cities, different organizations, same question: did they finally get their guy? New York cycled through names like Daniel Jones , Tommy DeVito and Russell Wilson before handing the offense to Jaxson Dart . In New Orleans, the list included Teddy Bridgewater , Jameis Winston , Derek Carr and Spencer Rattler before turning to Tyler Shough . Every move started with guarded optimism and ended with the search continuing. This time feels different. Not because Dart and Shough are guaranteed to become franchise quarterbacks, but because their rookie seasons in 2025 resembled those of quarterbacks who historically took major steps forward in their sophomore campaigns. Giants and Saints fans have heard such promises before. This time, there are reasons to believe. Quarterbacks don't usually break out because they throw for 4,000 yards as rookies. They break out because they already show the traits that consistently translate -- efficiency comes before production and limiting mistakes comes before stardom. The breakout usually arrives later, a function of everything else coming together. To see how Year 2 often unfolds, I looked at every quarterback since 2010 who started at least eight games as a rookie and tracked what happened in his second season. The quarterbacks who break out in Year 2 don't all get there the same way. But history shows a few recurring paths. The Launch Justin Herbert +0.13 +0.17 Elite rookie became an even better Year 2 quarterback. The Rescue Trevor Lawrence -0.09 +0.12 Coaching change unlocked his talent. The Plateau Mac Jones +0.04 -0.09 Offensive coaching change disrupted his development. The Regression Dak Prescott +0.23 -0.04 Supporting cast and offensive environment deteriorated. The Injury Robert Griffin III +0.22 +0.02 Knee injury fundamentally altered his trajectory. The lesson isn't that every quarterback falls into one of these distinct categories. It's that context matters as much as talent. Herbert built on an outstanding rookie season. Lawrence took off once Jacksonville got the coach right. Prescott regressed when the offense around him regressed ( Ezekiel Elliott was suspended, the offensive line was banged up). Mac Jones lost momentum after an offensive overhaul that included losing coordinator Josh McDaniels. And Griffin's trajectory changed because of injury late in his rookie season. Development is rarely linear, and it's almost never isolated from what's happening around the quarterback. So where does that leave this year's class? If there's one quarterback I'd bet on to make a Year 2 leap, it's Dart. What surprised me most was how consistent the results were. Whether I looked at historical comparisons or projections, they kept pointing back to the Giants quarterback. The Giants didn't spend Dart's rookie season trying to hide him. Once he became the starter, Brian Daboll asked him to run the offense, push the ball downfield and consistently make big-boy NFL throws. As the season progressed, Dart looked increasingly comfortable doing exactly that. And while it didn't always work, the results were encouraging. Dart's rookie numbers were modest: 2,272 passing yards, 15 touchdowns and a 91.7 passer rating across 12 starts. The more encouraging story lived beneath those numbers. Dart consistently challenged defenses downfield while protecting the football -- just five interceptions on 339 attempts -- even after Malik Nabers was lost for the season in Dart's first NFL start. By November, Daboll wasn't calling games like he was trying to protect a rookie. He was calling them like he expected Dart to make NFL throws. (And, yes, also like he was trying to save his job. Both things can be true.) Dart rewarded that trust. The game never felt too big, and that's a common thread fo [... truncated ...]
CBS Sports ranked the top 10 offensive and defensive play-callers for the 2026 NFL season. Sean McVay of the Rams and Mike Macdonald of the Seahawks topped their respective lists. Many head coaches also serve as play-callers. The Rams' offense under McVay, utilizing 13 personnel, was particularly dominant in 2025, while Kyle Shanahan's innovative schemes have consistently elevated quarterbacks like Matt Ryan and Brock Purdy
Robert Griffin III took a social media trend a step further, but his wife is on board. In a recent Instagram reel , Griffin dressed in an old Washington Redskins uniform and wrote, “Preparing for my Netflix documentary about why they kept running me when I only had 1 leg against Seattle in 2012.” The post generated a lot of comments and feedback, but Griffin’s wife, Grete, backed him up in the comments. “I have personal beef with everyone involved, and I didn’t even know you then,” she wrote. The post calls back to Griffin’s early retirement from the NFL due to what he believes was injury mismanagement by Washington at the time. He was the No. 2 overall pick to the Redskins — now known as the Commanders — in the 2012 NFL Draft and quickly made an impact on the field. The former quarterback earned a starting spot and authored a historic rookie campaign, setting the all-time single season rookie record for passer rating and touchdown-to-interception ratio. At the end of his first season, he threw for 3,200 yards, 20 touchdowns and five interceptions as Washington won the division and returned to the playoffs. It all earned him a Pro Bowl nod and the Offensive Rookie of the Year. However, toward the final stages of his rookie year marked the beginning of the end for Griffin. In early December 2012, he suffered a grade 1 LCL sprain. Yet, after missing one week of action, he returned to the field for a playoff game against Seattle. However, as reported by USA Today , Griffin was not cleared to return to the field by his doctor, which was different than what head coach Mike Shanahan claimed. Griffin went on to further aggravate his injury and needed surgery on both his LCL and ACL. For the rest of Griffin’s career until he retired in 2020, he never hit the same level again. His wife Grete was not there for the situation in Washington, as the two got engaged in 2017 after meeting just a year prior. However, she is just as enraged with it for the sake of her husband. The two married in March 2018. They have three daughters together — Gloria, Gameya, and Gia. Grete has also become a stepmother to Griffin’s oldest daughter, Reese Ann, from his previous marriage
Five years after former Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III announced, then scrapped, a tell-all book about his time with an inherently dysfunctional franchise, Griffin is apparently ready to tell his story. Or at least part of it. Griffin, while wearing a full uniform of the franchise he played for in 2012 (including a jersey with the abandoned name and a helmet with the expunged logo), moves his 2012 NFL offensive rookie of the year trophy from a chair and then sits down. A graphic on the screen says, “Preparing for my Netflix Documentary about why they kept running me when I only had one leg against Seattle in 2012.” He’s referring to the wild-card game against the Seahawks, during which his heavily-braced right leg gave out. Griffin originally injured his knee in Week 14 against the Ravens. After missing only one game, he returned for the final two weeks of the regular season and the playoff game against the Seahawks. His career wasn’t the same after that. He started 13 games in 2013 and seven in 2014. By 2015, the team had put him in bubble wrap to avoid his injury-guaranteed fifth-year option for 2016, playing Kirk Cousins instead. Griffin then spent one year with the Browns and three with the Ravens before his NFL career ended. It’s unclear whether the documentary will cover other aspects of Griffin’s time in Washington. His book would have apparently touched on a variety of topics, including (as he said in 2021) “ my experience with sexual harassment in Washington ,” adding in a video announcing the book: “I’m gonna open your eyes to the sexual harassment that permeated the walls of that building .” Griffin later had “ second thoughts ” about the book project. His agent denied that the decision was influenced by any direct or indirect pressure from the team, the league, or Griffin’s employer at the time, ESPN
Former Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III is hinting at a Netflix documentary detailing his 2012 season, specifically focusing on the playoff game against the Seahawks where he tore his ACL. The documentary will apparently explore why he was kept in the game despite his injury, a pivotal moment that impacted his career trajectory. Griffin's past attempts at sharing his story, including a planned tell-all book, were abandoned, but this documentary signals a new effort to recount his experiences, potentially including sensitive topics like sexual harassment during his time in Washington
Editor’s note: Each day, Hogs Haven compiles a collection of articles, podcasts & tweets from around the web to keep you in touch with the Commanders, the NFC East, the NFL and sports in general, with a sprinkling of other stuff. Enjoy! Commanders 1. Rare back-to-back road games to start the season. The Commanders have benefited from starting the season at home for the last few years. Since 2020, they have had a home opener five times and won four of them, the most recent being their 21-6 victory over the New York Giants . This season, not only will the Commanders kick things off on the road, but they’ll also be away from Northwest Stadium in Week 2 as well. It’s rare for Washington to start the season with back-to-back road matchups. It’s only happened three times in the last 43 years, with the last time coming in 2012 during Robert Griffin III ’s rookie year. The other two occasions in recent memory were in 2001 during Marty Schottenheimer’s first season as the franchise’s head coach and in 1982, when Washington won its first Super Bowl. The Commanders will face two of the better teams in the division for those matchups. They’ll open the season against the Philadelphia Eagles for the third time since 2019 and then travel to AT&T Stadium to face the Dallas Cowboys . Both teams are particularly tough to beat on the road. The Eagles have not lost a Week 1 home opener since 2010, while the Cowboys are 31-18-1 at AT&T Stadium since 2020. However, it would provide positive momentum for the Commanders if they managed to get a 2-0 start against two division rivals. Heavy.com Finding unheralded running backs who can cut it in the NFL has become a happy habit for the Washington Commanders , who “really like” a free-agent addition with the “explosive” talent to challenge last year’s late-round draft find Jacory Croskey-Merritt for carries this season. Undrafted backfield threat Robert Henry Jr. has the Commanders “intrigued,” according to ESPN’s John Keim . He explained on The John Keim Report how Henry is “going to be one to watch in training camp. To what degree? I don’t know. I know there’s some people here are intrigued by him because he had a game against Texas A&M in college where he ran for 177 yards, made guys miss. Like that stuff opens eyes. So like, hey, let’s see him here. He’s one of the undrafted guys that I think will be one to watch.” Bleeding Green Nation What an absolute dump. Know what’s worse than a dilapidated stadium in the early afternoon? A dilapidated stadium at night. The Commanders play in the middle of nowhere and it’s hard to get both into and out of the stadium grounds. A quick day trip for a game like this makes sense if you’re on one of those large fan-centric buses, but with a trip of roughly two-and-a-half hours before even taking traffic into consideration, those are much more palatable for 1 p.m. games rather than prime-time ones. Oh, yeah, Northwest Stadium has the worst sight lines of any NFL home, too. Hard pass! Blogging the Boys The Cowboys get off to a strong NFC East start by winning two games in a row in the division. The Cowboys offense at home will be too much for the Commanders defense. We’ll also get a second look at how a Christian Parker defense deals with a mobile quarterback. Who knows if this game will mean anything to either franchise at this point in the season? We might see a lot of backups. Or, it may mean everything to one or both of them. We’re taking the view the Cowboys have locked in their playoff position and rest some starters. Commanders win. Cowboys loss: 10-7 record Big Blue View One question: Will Jayden Daniels be healthy? That really is THE question for this game, and I think we have to assume that he will be. Scary Terry might finally start to slow down this year, but the duo of Luke McCaffrey and Antonio Williams (2026 3rd, Clemson) could pick up the slack. I would also expect the Dan Quinn to have his rebuilt defense playing well by this point [... truncated ...]
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