Saquon Barkley turns heads with vertical, 40-yard dash time

[Greenbacks]

Eli Manning is a old man.

Giants better take a QB

 

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13 games in
[COLOR=var(--body-5_-_color)][FONT=var(--body-5_-_font-family)]Barkley finished with more than 100 yards of total offense for the 12th time this season, tying Edgerrin James' mark of 12 as a rookie in 1999. Only Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson (13) has more games of 100 yards or more as a rookie than Barkley dating back to 1950.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=var(--body-5_-_color)][FONT=var(--body-5_-_font-family)]Barkley now has 1,753 yards from scrimmage, so he needs 247 yards to become the third rookie in NFL history to reach 2,000 yards from scrimmage. Dickerson set the record of 2,212 yards in 1983, and James had 2,139 in 1999.[/FONT][/COLOR]

 

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[FONT=&quot]With three games remaining, Barkley is 459 yards behind Dickerson's rookie record (2,212 yards) of yards from scrimmage. Barkley also has 12 games of at least 100 yards from scrimmage and would tie Dickerson's record of 13 games if he has one more such game.[/FONT]

 

[CoolBreeze22]

The Giants get bashed a lot for not drafting a QB, but damn it sure looks like Saquon has the potentially to be one of the 5 greatest RB's of all time.

 

[Ladeda]

The Giants get bashed a lot for not drafting a QB, but damn it sure looks like Saquon has the potentially to be one of the 5 greatest RB's of all time.

Then the question becomes what is more valuable to a team. Having a top 5 running back of all time or a franchise QB. Twenty years ago 100% of people would have said the greatest RB but now it's probably 50/50. When you look back at the past 30 years having a great running back has meant pretty much nothing in regards to winning football games. It doesn't seem logical in any way but the results are the results over a pretty large sample size.

Barry Sanders- awesome but never won anything, never came close. Played a bunch of years and never a sniff of winning.

Adrian Peterson- dominant back, never won anything. Was on some playoff teams and decent teams but for the most part the Vikings were always just average when he was at his best.

Emmitt Smith- obviously won many times over. but lots of people doubt he was even that great. He was durable, tough, consistant. But always had a top notch O-Line , great QB and offense in general. Most doubt he was really "great".

Walter Payton- was great for a long time, but only time he won , was with maybe the best defense ever. I'd say that could have switched Payton with the worst RB in the NFL that year and still easily won the Superbowl, without even going out on a limb.

Ladamlian Tomlinson- never won anything despite being easily the best back of his era.

Now there are plenty of backs who were pretty average who put up great numbers on great running teams, but any RB would have done that, see Terell Davis, Bettis, Priest Holmes etc.

 

[JustinCruise]

Beast

 

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Happy 24th Saquon

Saquon Barkley is an American football running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He played college football at Penn State for three seasons. He totaled 5,557 all-purpose yards in his three-year collegiate career.Wikipedia




Born: February 9, 1997 (age 24 years), The Bronx, New York, NY



Height: 6′ 0″



Weight: 234 lbs



Current team: New York Giants (#26 / Running back)



Children: Jada Clare Barkley

 

[brendanjack]

This guy gets injured more then a stunt man.

 

[carlitosway]

Injury prone. He's uber talented and I thought he was a generational RB but availability is the best ability.