New York Giants: Saquon Barkley Could Bounce Back Much Earlier Than Planned

New York Giants, Saquon Barkley

It seems like New York Giants Saquon Barkley is always finding new ways to amaze the fanbase – Barkley didn’t just have an abnormally quick rise in the league, finishing as one of the top running backs in the NFL by total yards as well as rushing yards in his rookie season, but it also looks like Barkley may come back from his early season high ankle sprain on an abnormally fast timetable.

Barkley was seen moving around in practice and, while not participating in full, it seems like Barkley is on a very early recovery timetable compared to most players. The expected time for a recovery is, of course, 4-8 weeks, which makes this return to the training field an ahead of schedule one.

The star running back was injured in the first victory of the season for the Giants, against Tampa, but the team was able to go on to get a win without his presence the following week against the Redskins, Daniel Jones being the main factor in the first win and the defense largely helping the Giants to a dominant result in the second.

Wayne Gallman did put on a good performance in the absence of Barkley, against Washington, but it remains to be seen how long the third year back is going to perform like this – it’s hard to tell whether or not the performance was due to Gallman’s own merit entirely, or whether a major factor was the other team being unprepared for Gallman after much speculation going into the game about just who the Giants would start at running back.

But according to Pat Shurmur, there may not be a need for the Giants to start another running back in their next game, against the Vikings. Barkley may just make his return at that point, which would be exceedingly quick.

Then again, it’s not the most surprising thing in the world considering that few other things about Barkley’s production have been normal so far. We’ll just have to wait and see, but as unlikely as it would have sounded, we might just see Saquon Barkley in the starting lineup once again in week five.

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