...for his football/athleltic skills, perhaps what may be overlooked at times is the level of maturity (and seriousness) this young man possesses.
I think we have gotten a glimpse of that in some of the interviews he has given recently (such as his sticking up for Daniel Jones), but there is one video I have in mind (can't find it now) that was generated when he was in college and followed the Penn State star back to his old high school where his younger brother was playing for the team.
What really stuck out in my mind was the semi-private discussion he had in the locker room with his brother about the importance of training in general and weight lifting in particular. This wasn't only a brother-to-brother chat. To me, it sounded more like a father-to-son lecture with Saquon Barkley challenging, encouraging, exhorting his brother to do more. It was very impressive.
The Giants not only have the best running back in the NFL, they have a young man with a first class temperament. At the risk of laying it on too thick, it is almost a privilege that we get to root for this guy every week!
It's a good thread in that it celebrates it again, but I think - and this is a very early sample size - that he has an opportunity to go down as one of the all-time greats, and not in small part due to what appears to be a rock-solid, genuine nature about him, across the board.
Agreed! It's not overlooked at all.
I think (my opinion) it was part of the reason for the OBJ trade. SB will be a major locker room force and so is OBJ. The two couldn't command the same spot so one had to go. OBJ is gone, Barkley is the future.