Baumgardner: Dart throws late, needs receivers wide open; legacy of Kiffin offense.

Dart has a tendency to throw the ball a tick too late and lacks anticipation in his throws, which limits his ability to help receivers turn modest gains into big plays or turn incompletions into completions. Nick Baumgardner of The Athletic noted: "He's one of these guys where it's you've got to be wide open sometimes before he's ready to rip it. He's just a guy that needs to see that receiver break two full steps or two full strides into a really wide window before he rips the ball." Baumgardner attributes this to a "hangover from the [Lane] Kiffin offense" at Ole Miss, where anticipatory throws weren't required. However, Baumgardner believes Dart can improve: "I don't think he's a guy that it's totally a lost cause. I think he can coax more out of it," though he cautioned that "it might be one of those things where it's like, hey, we got to be careful with how we run the offense because it might not be something that he's ever super, super strong at."