Jaxson Dart’s sideline appearance at Ole Miss bowl game fuels head-coaching speculation

New York Giants backmost Jaxson Dart acceptable societal media buzzing with speculation astir the team’s adjacent caput manager aft fans attempted to lip-read the rookie connected the Ole Miss sideline during Thursday night’s Fiesta Bowl.

There are presently 8 teams successful the NFL connected the hunt for a caller caput coach, including the Giants, who fired Brian Daboll midseason pursuing different missed playoffs. Several notable names person since been thrown into the excavation of disposable coaches, and Dart appeared to person fixed fans a hint arsenic to who the Big Blue has been eyeing. 

New York Giants backmost Jaxson Dart stands connected the sideline during the archetypal fractional of the Fiesta Bowl NCAA College Football Playoff semifinal crippled betwixt Miami (Florida) and Mississippi successful Glendale, Arizona, connected Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Dart was connected the sidelines for his alma mater Ole Miss during the team’s 31-27 nonaccomplishment to Miami successful the Fiesta Bowl erstwhile the broadcast picked up the 22-year-old having a conversation. 

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Although his comments were inaudible, societal media users attempted to work Dart’s lips, prompting speculation that helium said "Harbaugh oregon Stefanski," a notation to erstwhile Baltimore Ravens caput manager John Harbaugh and erstwhile Cleveland Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski.

Although it remains unclear what Dart was genuinely saying, some coaches are wide considered among the astir sought-after escaped agents presently successful the NFL.

Head manager John Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens walks the tract anterior to the crippled against the Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Acrisure Stadium connected Jan. 4, 2026 successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)

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The Ravens’ determination to occurrence Harbaugh aft 18 seasons — a tenure that included aggregate part titles, respective AFC Championship appearances and a Super Bowl triumph — rattled the league and drew involvement from galore teams, including immoderate that already had caput coaches successful place.

While the Giants person yet to interrogation Harbaugh, it seems inevitable they will.

Cleveland Browns caput manager Kevin Stefanski walks connected the sideline during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals successful Cincinnati, Ohio, connected Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

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  The Giants person already conducted interviews with Stefanski, Vance Joseph, Raheem Morris, and Antonio Pierce. 

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