Overview
- Interim coach Mike Kafka said Dart did not progress through the protocol sufficiently to be cleared, emphasizing this was not an extra‑caution decision.
- Dart practiced on a limited, non‑contact basis during the week but remained in the protocol through Friday and was declared out.
- Jameis Winston will make his second straight start with Russell Wilson as the backup, after Winston went 19-of-29 for 201 yards with a rushing TD and one interception in Week 11.
- The first‑round pick sustained the concussion in Week 10 on a designed quarterback run in Chicago and has been evaluated for a concussion four times dating to the preseason, per multiple reports.
- New York is 2-9 on a five‑game skid; Dart has 1,417 passing yards with 10 TDs and three INTs plus 317 rushing yards and seven rushing TDs, and his next chance to return comes in Week 13 at New England before a Week 14 bye.