Jaxson Dart contains multitudes. He offers immense upside and hilarious downside. Dart was certainly responsible for several of the wildest individual plays of the 2025 season. And yes, the previous sentence is intended as both complimentary and derisive.For fantasy purposes, of course, Dart was a party last year. His bouts of inaccuracy and carelessness hardly mattered. He was mostly terrible in the Denver loss, for example — 15-for-33, one interception, four sacks — yet still delivered 28.4 fantasy points. It wasn’t always a clinic with Dart as a rookie, but he paid the fantasy bills when healthy.This season, however, he’s expected to be more than a frenetic wind-up toy. Dart is now the face of a century-old franchise coached by a Harbaugh. Things have gotten serious.New York has assembled a Traveling Wilburys-style offensive coaching staff loaded with familiar names — Matt Nagy, Greg Roman and Brian Callahan among them. As The Athletic’s Dan Duggan explained this week, the new staff is challenging Dart to operate in unfamiliar ways and do so with great precision.“The Giants, who made signing 300-pound fullback Pat Ricard from Baltimore a priority in free agency, are planning to deploy a power rushing attack. The quarterback needs to operate from under center to facilitate that. In turn, the play-action passing game should be opened up,” wrote Duggan.“Dart’s rookie season rarely featured under center play action. Instead, Dart ran the offense while surveying the defense from the shotgun. Under center play action requires the quarterback to turn his back to the defense, which makes reading the defense post-snap more challenging. There’s also a greater emphasis on Dart’s footwork in this system, which must be synced up with the timing of the receivers’ routes,” he added.If this all seems like a radical change for a guy who was directing a Lane Kiffin offense just two years ago … well, yeah. It’s a big ask.Additionally, the Giants are doing all they can to help Dart cultivate a sense of self-preservation, which may or may not stick. As a runner, Dart seems hardwired to seek contact. Hopefully that’s more bug than feature. Running back Cam Skattebo’s job is to run like a proton in a particle accelerator, but Dart’s certainly is not. We welcome the rushing stats in fantasy, although not at the risk of violent contact and injury.New York opens the season at home on Sunday night in primetime against the Cowboys, a huge stage for the debut of Dart 2.0. Several of the most pressing questions in fantasy football should be answered in that game. New York’s star wide receiver Malik Nabers is expected (though not guaranteed) to return to face Dallas following last season’s ACL and meniscus injuries. He and Dart only shared the field for one quarter last year, connecting on two receptions. When Nabers was sidelined, the Giants had a conspicuous lack of offensive game-wreckers, and Dart was routinely out-gunned.This year, things should be different. Let’s hope all those new coaches have begun to address Dart’s flaws while preserving the best parts of his game. He’s an extreme range-of-outcomes player, but the upside is clear. If Dart can level up and Nabers is anything like the pre-injury version of himself, New York’s offense might just be a fantasy carnival.Kaelon Black was curiously involved in the 49ers run gameThis offseason, like every previous offseason, Christian McCaffrey’s head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke openly about finding ways to reduce the lead back’s rushing workload and preserve him for the weeks that matter most. It’s possible that 2026 will be the year a team actually achieves this goal.