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#Giants RB Saquon Barkley suffered an ACL tear, based on the manual tests and initial diagnosis, source said. He’ll have an MRI to tell the full story, but the belief is the star is done for the season. Coach Joe Judge said they are holding out hope.
Yankees too. Just unlucky.
Thought it was his hand...then see his knee.
Didn't realize it was different plays
Especially if they have to amputate.
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He may never be the same.
Especially if they have to amputate.
i heard they might have to amputate both legs, just to be sure.
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He may never be the same.
Especially if they have to amputate.
I am serious though, his game was the speed, the agility and cutting etc. Not a feed the beast power back. This could impact him a great deal.
Real bummer
Is there really a question?
Unfortunately, these kinds of injuries can be career altering. He may never be the same. The question will ultimately be whether he deserves to be paid like an All-World RB if he only comes back as merely "good."
As far as the team goes I’m going to come out and say this because we’re not going to start winning until the team adapts the same mentality, so maybe it can start with the fans and trickle to them....
NEXT MAN UP
Unfortunately, these kinds of injuries can be career altering. He may never be the same. The question will ultimately be whether he deserves to be paid like an All-World RB if he only comes back as merely "good."
Well, an older back like Adrien Peterson came back pretty good from a knee injury. There’s plenty of RBs that have. He’s a hard worker. He’ll be back and ready for next season. DJ will need another back however. I don’t think Gallman or Lewis are the long term answer. DG might have to start working the phones?!
Ingram was invisable until Barkley left.
Thought it was his hand...then see his knee.
Didn't realize it was different plays
Yes, he went to the sidelines after the next to last play of the first quarter acting as if he was injured. And then he came back to start the second quarter and the knee injury happened on the first play of the second quarter.
Hard enough for a guy who runs straight ahead with power, but for a guy who depends on ankle-breaking cuts and misdirections and spins. He's just likely 75% at best hope when he returns...if he returns.
WE may have seen the last play he will ever run for the GIANTS.
Unfortunately, these kinds of injuries can be career altering. He may never be the same. The question will ultimately be whether he deserves to be paid like an All-World RB if he only comes back as merely "good."
His entire game is built on cutbacks and quick acceleration. ACL will kill that. He'll come back as average unless he changes his game and becomes a power back (which he has the size to).
Yankees too. Just unlucky.
Even on defense. Bryan Kehl and Nick Connelly showed signs of being something before injuries killed their careers.
I just know this young team needs weapons and he was our best RB and a HR threat. The hope was as the season goes on he'd be the workhorse who performed at All-NFL levels receiving and running the ball.
The sad thing is the immediate response to the injury on the game thread were people calling for Gettleman to be fired. Barkley hadn't even left the field before the moron brigade was raining shit.
Don't try and tell that to the fucking idiot who posted on the Barkley thread that he was right not to pick a RB and Barkley's injury confirmed that.
Of course that dolt cried for the past three years because we didn't pick Darnold, but logic and class are two of his strong suits. Hell, they aren't even in his wardrobe
If only there was a way to estimate the injury risk of RBs.
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just stinks
If only there was a way to estimate the injury risk of RBs.
Gurley came back and had 3 great years and his injury was devastating.
Gurley came back and had 3 great years and his injury was devastating.
In Gurley's last good year with the Rams, he was useless in the playoffs because of the degeneration of his knee.
At age 24.
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And to anyone suggesting the giants got what they deserved or this validates the belief of never drafting rbs high, no, it’s just bad fucking luck for a franchise that is unlucky, lately. This isn’t about draft value. Barkley is an insanely good player. This just sucks. Badly. Just a catastrophic day for them.
The sad thing is the immediate response to the injury on the game thread were people calling for Gettleman to be fired. Barkley hadn't even left the field before the moron brigade was raining shit.
Yeah, it's despicable. Gettleman was right - this is a generational talent. However, being "Being touched by God" unfortunately doesn't guarantee he'll play injury free.
The bigger crime for me is seeing this super hard working, good human being have his career slowly stolen from him through no fault of his own.
AP is such an anomaly, it’s almost fantasy. No reasonable projection for Barkley starts with something Barry Sanders or AP did - total non-starter. Total fantasy.
The reality now is Barkley isn’t getting extended, unless it’s highly in the Giants favor. He’ll go into year four of his NFL career playing in a total of 9 NFL wins, coming off ACL surgery. If he’s just rounding back into form next year, he’s probably going to play out his 5th year option too. I feel terrible for him.
Giants will have about 7 months to make a decision. Not much time for him to recover fully.
It's the same knee and arthritis is a broad term used as a label for pain and swelling in a joint.
Not a lot of 24 yos suffer career-altering arthritis that isn't the result of a previous traumatic injury.
AP is such an anomaly, it’s almost fantasy. No reasonable projection for Barkley starts with something Barry Sanders or AP did - total non-starter. Total fantasy.
The reality now is Barkley isn’t getting extended, unless it’s highly in the Giants favor. He’ll go into year four of his NFL career playing in a total of 9 NFL wins, coming off ACL surgery. If he’s just rounding back into form next year, he’s probably going to play out his 5th year option too. I feel terrible for him.
The overwhelming evidence. Sorry, what evidence? If his ACL was a clean tear, he has a decent chance at a full recovery. ACL’s aren’t the death sentence they were.
I understand this is disappointing, and the timing isn’t great (never is), but he can come back and be very good.
Yes...we root for the Giants. Nothing good is to be expected
In the last 10 years there have been seven top 5 rushing performances in their 7th or later season.
Only two players did it twice — Michael Turner and Adrien Peterson. Turner is a weird one because he was not an every down back until later in his career. You also have some one offs like Forsett and McFadden getting a spin as a feature back in their twilight.
I’m not saying careers are over after 6 seasons, I’m saying peaks typically are. You can certainly go back and find the outliers, but you can find way more guys who slowed down after 6 seasons.
This it the second time he has been incapacitated in play. Bottom line: another really bad draft pick who has not and will not ever work out for the Giants. His play has been, at best, indifferent. (OK with very bad O-lines -- but still.) Now it turns out he's a china doll.
Hope he recovers easily and soon. But he is not the answer to the Giants' offensive needs and woes. Bad pick with no line (which was known at the time) even if he turned out to be Superman. And Superman he is not. Not as a runner or receiver or blocker. Forget about it.
Allen had a lot of accuracy problems, and also had a collarbone injury in college that required plates and screws. The option offered was to trade down to #4 with the Browns for two second round picks. DG likely would have taken Chubb, who has also torn his ACL.