Everybody is aware of Saquon Barkley wouldn’t have been a Most Precious Participant candidate, a record-breaking working again and a Tremendous Bowl champion had he stayed with the Giants. That supposition was repeated so usually the previous few weeks — as Barkley and the Eagles superior deeper and deeper into the playoffs — that it virtually sounded as if the Giants have been harmless bystanders in all this.
What turned extra evident as Barkley churned out yards and, at occasions, carried the Birds on his broad shoulders and tree-trunk thighs was that the Giants actually screwed this one up. Certain, taking Barkley with the No. 2-overall choose within the 2018 NFL Draft went towards nearly each position-value chart and each draft analyst advice. You don’t take a working again with a top-five choose. You may get them later, after the primary spherical, and even on the third day (rounds 4-7) of the draft.
However when you do chart a unique course, you then higher make darn certain you construct your staff round that working again and never anticipate him to placed on a cape and be a superhero.
The Giants — former normal supervisor Dave Gettleman, particularly — went towards that standard knowledge as a result of Gettleman considered Barkley as a once-in-a-generation offensive weapon. Debate that each one you need. Barkley confirmed quite a lot of bursts of greatness in his six seasons with the Giants, however he went down with routine ankle and knee accidents and in addition a torn ACL that restricted him to 2 video games in 2020. By the tip of his run with the Giants, he failed to succeed in 1,000 speeding yards (962 in 14 video games), averaged a paltry 3.9 yards per try and managed just one 100-yard sport your entire 2023 season. He didn’t appear like a spry 27-year previous.
