Jordan Raanan, ESPN Body of workers Editor
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A number of days then the New York Giants articulated their aim to secure Saquon Barkley in the course of the industry closing date, the big name operating again scored the successful landing then hyperextending his elbow previous within the match.
Barkley’s 32-yard catch-and-run landing in the second one quarter became out to be the successful rating in an up-and-down 14-7 victory over the Washington Commanders. He additionally fumbled deep in Washington length past due within the fourth quarter to secure it a one-score competition.
All this got here then he hyperextended his elbow at the competition’s 2d pressure when he was once tackled to the field and into the kicking internet by way of Washington linebacker Jamin Davis. Barkley was at the sideline and was once attended to by way of running shoes. He returned refer to line with a sleeve on his left arm and elbow.
“I’ll be all right,” Barkley mentioned with a gathering towards the crosstown rival New York Jets at the horizon after Sunday.
The industry closing date is refer to at 4 p.m. ET on Oct. 31.
It doesn’t glance as though Barkley goes any place, even if he’s enjoying on an adjusted franchise tag and prepared to turn into a detached agent then the season. Then Barkley was once requested about the potential for being traded endmost while, the Giants’ brass pulled him apart to ensure that they sought after him to stay a key piece to their puzzle.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a sigh of relief. … It didn’t cross my mind,” Barkley mentioned. “I don’t even think about it. I know you guys are doing your job and asking the question.
“There was once a dialog all over the while from [coach Brian Daboll] and [general manager] Joe [Schoen]. They pulled me apart and talked to me. I will’t keep watch over that, if it doesn’t occur or it does occur. What I will keep watch over is how I come to paintings each and every unmarried week and the way I compete, my mindset and my paintings ethic. That’s what I’m getting to proceed to do.”
The Giants (2-5) won on Sunday for the first time since Week 2. They snapped a four-game skid. They also scored an offensive touchdown for the first time in over a month.
They’ll have some decisions to make by the deadline aside from Barkley, especially if they lose to the Jets. But trading their most explosive playmaker would be detrimental to the product on the field this season. That his future remains uncertain is a separate pressing issue.
Barkley, 26, made it clear that does not want to be anywhere else other than the place where he was drafted second overall in the 2018 NFL draft.
“We all know I don’t wish to be traded,” he said last week.
Barkley has consistently stated he wants to be a Giant for life. He has a life and family in New Jersey, where the Giants make their home. Uprooting everything he has built in the area is not among his preferences.
But while Schoen has said before he’s not “buying groceries” a player, it doesn’t necessarily mean he won’t listen. He eventually traded Kadarius Toney (in a much different situation) only a few months after insisting he wasn’t exploring trades for the wide receiver.
Barkley’s value to the Giants is obvious. They have looked significantly more competent since his return last Sunday night in Buffalo from a high ankle sprain that cost him three games. Barkley had 77 yards on 21 carries against the Commanders. He added three catches for 41 yards and the touchdown.
And also the fumble that kept the Commanders alive late. It prompted him to joke afterward that the fan base would “send my ass out if we had misplaced that competition.”
They didn’t lose this one. And it looks as if he’s staying anyway, a minimum of in the course of the finish of this season and most likely longer.
