The Giants picked Penn State running back Saquon Barkley with the second overall pick in the NFL Draft on Thursday. Here’s something funny that happened in March:
An NFL assistant said he’d ‘punch myself in the nuts many, many, many times to be able to draft’ the Giants’ Saquon Barkley
Football is an entirely normal and healthy industry.
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Let’s check in with an anonymous NFL assistant coach:
Professional football, ladies and gentlemen!
And Barkley’s college head coach would take it even further than that to have him back:
Saquon Barkley will be the first running back taken in the NFL Draft in April. That was almost a foregone conclusion before he showed up at the league’s scouting combine this weekend and put on a sparkling show, with measurements and drill results that blew away the field:
Barkley has better game film than everyone else, with a library of career highlights to rival anyone’s from this era. He’s as close to a perfect running back prospect as you could want.
It’s probably — probably — the case that Mr. Anonymous Coach was just joking, and that he wouldn’t actually deliver blunt force to his own genitals time and time again with the goal of drafting any player. But if there were a player who a coach could deem worth it, Barkley’s it.
Here’s a less painful way to describe Barkley’s abilities:
The Penn State product’s going to do fine in the draft, I think.
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