QB · New York (NFC) · 2026 outlook
Jaxson Dart ran for 487 yards and nine touchdowns in 14 games as a rookie, which is Jalen Hurts territory on the ground.
The passing line is a rookie's: 2,272 yards in 14 games is low volume, and 15 touchdowns is modest. The rushing line is not. Four hundred and eighty-seven yards and nine scores puts him level with Jalen Hurts on the ground, and those nine touchdowns alone are worth 54 fantasy points. Five interceptions against 15 touchdowns is careful for a first-year starter. This is the profile that makes cheap quarterbacks valuable: the scoring does not depend on the offense around him developing, because he is finishing drives himself.
For 2026 he has the better half of every comparison with Brock Purdy, who is ranked one spot ahead of him. The schedule rates a 4 out of 5 for quarterbacks against San Francisco's 1, with the same week 8 bye. The risk is the obvious one for a running quarterback in year two: nine rushing touchdowns on 487 yards is a high conversion rate that will probably come down, and the passing volume has to grow to cover it. Draft him as the upside swing at the back of the quarterback pool, where a 30-point miss costs you nothing and a jump wins you the position.
The rushing yards are more repeatable than the scores. Four hundred and eighty-seven yards in 14 games is a designed-runner workload, and those tend to persist. Nine touchdowns off that yardage is a high conversion rate; six or seven is the honest expectation, which still clears every pocket passer near him.
They are ranked a spot apart and they are not the same bet. Purdy is efficiency with no rushing floor and the league's hardest quarterback schedule. Dart is a modest passer with a real rushing role and a 4 out of 5 schedule. If you want the safer weekly floor late, it is Dart.
Passing volume. Twenty-two hundred yards in 14 games is roughly 162 a game, which is not enough to carry a week when the rushing touchdowns do not come. The rushing role gives him a floor; the passing has to grow before he has a ceiling.
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