This offseason, the New York Giants needed to seriously upgrade their quarterback room after several seasons of inconsistent play.
The directive from up above was for general manager Joe Schoen to set out to find solutions, both short and long term, under center to finally get the Giants back on the winning track.
The team went from the likes of Daniel Jones and Drew Lock to Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston. The only constant remaining in the room was local folk legend Tommy DeVito, aka Tommy Cutlets.
Then, in the 2025 NFL draft, Schoen traded up for Ole Miss star Jaxson Dart, a Utah native who began his college career at USC and ended it with a bang down in Oxford.
Fate has now thrown Dart and DeVito together this summer, forming a kind of “odd couple” vibe. DeVito is seeing his reps diminish while Dart is ascending to become the future of the franchise with each passing practice.
That hasn’t put a dent in the budding friendship between these vastly different young men. DeVito knows he’s mainly still around because he is the only one of the four quarterbacks who knows the offense. When the others learn, he’s likely to be the odd man out. But he won’t go quietly.
“For sure,” DeVito told reporters at the team’s minicamp on Wednesday when asked if he still sees a future for himself with the Giants. “I mean, the plan has always been to be here, especially when I was a rookie. So, trying to continue that for as long as possible, and then we’ll see where it goes from there.
“But right now, I’m focused on being present and where I am and be where my feet are. So right now, I’m about to go enjoy this break and then come back for training camp, and then we’ll go from there.”
In the interim, DeVito is doing what he can for Dart, as are the other quarterbacks. The two hang out frequently as they are both still single. He kidded that he and Dart could end up going on the popular TV show, Love Island.
“We have,” DeVito said with a laugh when asked if they watch the show together. “I can’t say we do it every night, but from time to time if we get an off day. Yeah, we watch it, we talk about it.
“Me and Jax might go on Love Island, we’ve talked about it. So, you really don’t know what’s about to happen.
DeVito has a better chance of ending up on the Giants’ practice squad or elsewhere this season is a real possibility. DeVito said there’s only so much he can do to stay a Giant.
“I mean, control what I can control, nobody in our quarterback room, no players can control that. Obviously, we can with our play, but the coaches make decisions – when your number’s called, you go out and make the most of it,” he said. “Kind of the same deal that’s happened since I’ve been here. Stay down, keep working, grinding until it’s my time to go. When that time comes, I do my thing. But until then, control what I can control, be the best teammate and help everybody around me.”
Dart, on the other hand, will be here for the long run. DeVito believes his new friend has a “swaggy” way about him that will help him succeed in the Big Apple.
“Yeah, you have to have that. I mean, for any quarterback, I think you have to have that confidence, especially here in this market with how New York and the fans and everybody’s around it,” DeVito said. “You have to have that kind of confidence because the minute you go on Twitter or read something, everything can go downhill.
“So, for him to have that coming in, you want to keep him high with that confidence. No matter if he makes a mistake, he’s going to make mistakes. I made a ton of mistakes, so did everybody else. When you make a mistake, you’re right there on that, you’re good, bro, we’re on to the next one. For him to have that at this point and continue to have that during training camp, preseason, and when the season comes, it’s going to be huge for him.”
Wilson is signed for one season and Winston for two. DeVito is playing on a one-year tender. Who knows what the quarterback room will look like in 2026? It is very possible that Dart is the starter and DeVito his backup.
This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: New York Giants’ Tommy DeVito teases that he and Jaxson Dart may go on Love Island
Reporting by John Fennelly, Giants Wire / Giants Wire
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