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Jameis Winston 'expected to start' over Russell Wilson for Giants against Packers

Stephen Samraby: Steve Samra23 hours agoSamraSource
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The Giants are in a bit of turmoil heading into Week 11. They just fired their head coach in Brian Daboll, and star rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart is currently in concussion protocol.

With his status for Sunday’s home game against the Packers in doubt, interim head coach Mike Kafka is expected to start Jameis Winston at quarterback against Green Bay, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Jordan Raanan. He gets the nod over fellow veteran Russell Wilson.

Winston has been a model backup quarterback in 2025, and now he’ll seemingly get a chance to start at home inside MetLife Stadium. Perhaps he can rejuvenate the Giants and lead the team to a win against a reeling Packers team. Stranger things have happened.

Meanwhile, New York falling to 2-8 in Week 10 was the end of Daboll in New York, as his tenure with the Giants came to a close with an overall record of 20-40-1 (.336). That’s the fifth-worst win percentage all-time for a coach of the franchise and the worst of the anyone with as many games as he had on their sideline, since he made his head coaching debut in 2022.

That was his only winning campaign as New York was 9-7-1 (.559) with a seven-point win in the NFC Wild Card over the Minnesota Vikings before losing by 31 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Divisional. In his other two and a half seasons since combined, the Giants, being among the league’s worst on both sides of the ball during that span, have been 11-33 (.250).

That includes this season, with the Giants falling to 2-8 with a 24-20 loss on the road to the Chicago Bears. New York led by as much as ten twice in the second half, but gave up fourteen unanswered in the final four minutes to lose again in what’s now the final game under Daboll.

They, after an 0-3 start, seem to find a new energy with a quarterback change to end September, as they went 2-1 from Week 4 to Week 6. However, the Giants have since lost four more straight, including having blown a 19-point lead on the road to the Denver Broncos, double-digit losses on the road to the Philadelphia Eagles and against the San Francisco 49ers, and that latest missed opportunity yesterday at Chicago, to be last in the NFC East, tied for last in the NFC with the New Orleans Saints, and being only better record-wise in the NFL than the Tennessee Titans.

There was a lot of excitement around Daboll’s hire after being a long-time offensive coach around the NFL, namely over three years with the Buffalo Bills. However, his tenure with New York disappointed in barely winning just a third of his games, with the Giants set to begin searching for their fifth head coach of the last decade.

In the meantime, Kafka and Winston will be looking to deliver a slight reprieve for a week in East Rutherford. We’ll see if they can defeat one of the NFC’s top contenders in the Packers.

— On3’s Sam Gillenwater contributed to this article.