Jameis Winston embracing an unlikely Giants role for Jaxson Dart
The Giants quarterback room includes a former No. 1 draft pick (Jameis Winston), a Super Bowl champion who has been selected to 10 Pro Bowls (Russell Wilson) and a former undrafted free agent with experience in Big Blue's system (Tommy DeVito).
Jaxson Dart has several directions to turn when it comes to learning the position in the NFL, and Winston is eager to be one of the voices to help the rookie signal-caller along.
Winston doesn't subscribe to the notion that the best teacher is experience.
'I think one of the toughest ways to experience something is through experience,' he said Tuesday during minicamp. 'So I feel like some of the trials and some of the victories that Russ and myself or even Tommy have had throughout our career, we're able to relay that message to him in a way that maybe he gets a chance to see something before it happens, or maybe we give him a few nuggets that he can take so he doesn't put himself in situations that we may have put ourselves in.'
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