It sounds like Saquon Barkley avoided a serious injury. The Giants star running back is believed to have suffered a low-ankle sprain, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport (via Twitter).
The injury will knock him out of Sunday’s contest against the Rams, but he’ll otherwise be considered week-to-week. Earlier today, Giants head coach Joe Judge seemed to confirm that Barkley avoided a serious injury.
“In terms of the X-rays that came back, (it was) better news than it could’ve been for us,” Judge said (via ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Twitter). “[S]o it was a little bit of a sigh of relief with a couple of things just knowing the player and what he’s battled through.”
After being limited to only two games in 2020, Barkley had started each of New York’s first five games in 2021. The 24-year-old has collected 325 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns on 68 touches.
More injury notes from around the NFL:
- One of Barkley’s teammates was also lucky. Giants wideout Kenny Golladay will miss Sunday’s game, but the free agent acquisition avoided a “major” injury, per Rapoport (on Twitter). There was a “major sigh of relief” following the diagnosis, which has since been confirmed as a hyperextended knee (via ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler on Twitter). Golladay has disappointed to start his career in New York, hauling in only 17 receptions through five games.
- Another Giants player wasn’t so lucky. Rookie Rodarius Williams tore his ACL against the Cowboys yesterday, according to Paul Schwartz of the New York Post (via Twitter). The rookie sixth-round pick has seen time in all five games this season, collecting one tackle.
- Texans left tackle Laremy Tunsil suffered a torn UCL in his thumb during yesterday’s loss to the Patriots, reports Rapoport (via Twitter). The Pro Bowler will eventually need surgery, but the organization is hoping Tunsil can play through the injury and hold off surgery for the time being. The former first-round pick has missed at least one regular season game in each of his five full seasons.
- Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski could end up playing on Thursday against the Eagles. Head coach Bruce Arians said Gronk is “very close” to returning to the field (per NFL.com). After collecting four touchdowns through his first three games of the season, the 32-year-old has missed the past two games while he recovered from a rib injury.
Anyone care to discuss J Gru?
I think they closed comments because they don’t want to hear people who misinterpret free speech and 1st amendment BS.
Lol….there’s like 50 comments below….0 on the above article.
It’s so lame that they close the comments on anything even remotely controversial
The comments get wild on this site lmao
more factual than anything that was said in those comment sections while they were open lol
Does anyone really want to get into absurd and stupid arguments discussing Jon Gruden? I mean, if you do, you can go literally anywhere else on the internet.
Then explain why Deshaun Watson is still eligible to play in the NFL after sexually assaulting 24 different women, Richard Sherman was arrested for domestic violence but now playing for the Bucs and there are literally “no-no” words found in rap lyrics sung by black rappers but apparently Gruden is the one in the wrong with his emails from 10 years ago?
If you want to ask me, the NFL is full of hypocrites who can’t get their priorities straight.
Correct lookhere. But then again, racist remarks by black people nowadays are not racist. BTW, I am not condoning what Chuckie said.
I respect a PFR staffers right to lock out comments in certain situations but the criteria for doing so has never been explained satisfactorily and the process seems entirely arbitrary. I know most of the regulars who leave comments in this forum and don’t think they should be treated as children.
Seems to me, and probably others, that if we begin to measure the worth of professional sports players by their moral conscience, ethics, intelligence, and/or any other basis by which our worth is judged outside in the REAL world, we should and would be sorely disappointed…..you all may not like the comments above, but he has a point….Gruden is screwed by comments he made viewed as racist, but guys like Sherman, Watson, and many many others, are continually not judged by the same standards which is obvious to some, but oblivious to others. Not giving Gruden a pass, but if we’re to judge why not by only one moral standard.
By the way the Commissioner is an idiot as well, selling the NFL as relevant only in today’s world.
Am I missing something? Physical evidence & confession is comparable to accusations & denial?
The part that has never been confusing:
getting bent out of shape for being called out for things that never should have existed at all.
“Cancel Culture” is the organic product of mindsets like “racism died in the 1970s” “they say it why can’t we?” etc
Complaining about the reaction instead of acknowledging, much less addressing, the cause is cyclical
They really should just close comments on every post. People like LookHere have absolutely nothing better to do in their waste of oxygen lives than troll.
“People I disagree with is automatically considered a troll, and yes that includes my family, friends and everyone on the Internet when their comment goes against the narrative I believe in. I win every time I call someone a troll when they disagree with the narrative that matters to me!”
–philliesfan215
You’re more than welcome to have differing opinions. You’re here strictly spouting nonsense because you get off on it. Big difference.