Giants RB Saquon Barkley is doubtful for Monday night's game against the Seahawks.

Barkley is in the middle of his recovery from his Week 2 ankle injury. The initial thought was that he would miss about three games, so it's not too surprising that he is unlikely to play here in Week 4. The Giants got nothing on the ground against the 49ers, totaling 29 rushing yards on 11 attempts. Matt Breida led the way with 17 yards. Barkley does seem to be progressing well, so maybe there's a chance he'll be back for Week 5 against the Dolphins or Week 6 against the Bills.

The New York Giants are considering running back Saquon Barkley day-to-day as he tries to get back from an ankle injury in time for Monday night's matchup with the Seattle Seahawks.

Barkley missed Thursday night's loss to the San Francisco 49ers with the injury, which he described to the Amazon broadcast as a high ankle sprain. He is not practicing Tuesday as the Giants begin on-field preparations for the Seahawks.

Related Players: Matt Breida, Gary Brightwell

The Giants running backs —as well as the entire offense— struggled yet again in Week 3. The Breida/Brightwell rotation accounted for 22 yards on the ground and 32 more through the air against the 49ers. It's not suggested to start either one of them if Barkley misses Week 4.

Head coach Brian Daboll called Saquon Barkley a quick healer last week and said on Tuesday that the team is going to continue monitoring his condition as they head toward their Monday night date with the Seahawks.

“He’s really now I’d say in the day-to-day category. He feels a lot better today, but we’ll kinda take that all the way throughout the week and see how he improves,” Daboll said, via SNY.

Related players: Matt Breida, Gary Brightwell, Eric Gray

Barkley said last Thursday that he suffered a high-ankle sprain in the team’s Week 2 win over the Cardinals and that injury often causes players to miss multiple games, but the Giants aren’t making any plans to play without him at this point, the story added. We may not know a whole lot more heading into Week 4's Monday night matchup, so owners are going to need a backup plan when it comes to a decision on having Barkley in your lineup or not. The good news is if Barkley is out, Breida has a much better matchup this week when it comes to plugging him into lineups if it comes down to a game-time decision.

The New York Giants have officially ruled out running back Saquon Barkley (ankle) for Thursday night's game against the San Francisco 49ers.

Barkley suffered an ankle sprain in Sunday's win over the Arizona Cardinals and is considered week to week, but head coach Brian Daboll kept the door open Tuesday for Barkley to play in San Francisco.

Related Players: Matt Breida, Gary Brightwell, Eric Gray

Barkley's immediate reaction to the injury put Daboll's initial remarks to shame, as the RB was completely beside himself. It's not recommended that you start any Giants running back this week.

Reports on Monday varied about just how long Giants running back Saquon Barkley will be out after spraining his ankle against the Cardinals on Sunday, but they all said he will miss this Thursday’s game against the 49ers at the very least.

Giants head coach Brian Daboll said on Tuesday that it was premature to rule Barkley out for Thursday night, however. Daboll said the team currently plans to make a game-time decision about Barkley’s availability.

As the story said, this could just be gamesmanship. Daboll called Barkley a quick healer and said the RB felt a lot better Tuesday.

An MRI showed that Giants’ RB Saquon Barkley suffered an “ordinary” ankle sprain that now is expected to sideline him three weeks, per source.

Related players: Matt Breida, Gary Brightwell, Eric Gray

Barkley didn't seem like he had much of a shot to play on a short week in Week 3, but it's at least a bit of good news he wasn't placed on IR and the team must think he has a shot to get back on the field sooner than later. As for the Giants RB situatoin, it's a tough matchup on TNF against the 49ers. Look for Breida and Gray to split up the workload with Brightwell a possible change of pace and passing down option.

Giants’ RB Saquon Barkley is scheduled to undergo an MRI on his right ankle Monday in Arizona to determine the severity of his injury and how much time he could miss, sources tell
Jordan Raanan and me.

Related players: Matt Breida, Gary Brightwell, Eric Gray

X-rays were negative for Barkley - which was good news if you saw the injury take place and his struggles to get off the field. Schefter went on to say Barkley’s ankle was swollen after the game but the thinking, in the words of one source, is that, “it’s an ordinary (sprain) rather than a high-ankle sprain. Just need to verify (Monday).” So there’s some optimism and hope going into Monday’s MRI, but more answers await. The Giants play Thursday night in San Francisco, as Schefter said. Breida and rookie Gray could see a split in the workload with Brightwell the change of pace and passing down back. Despite the seemingly good news on Barkley, the short week could make it tough for him to be ready to go.

Giants RB Saquon Barkley had x-rays on his right ankle following Sunday's comeback victory over the Cardinals.

Barkley scored two touchdowns as the Giants from down 28-7 to beat the Cardinals 31-28. But now his status is in question as he had some pain and discomfort following the game. The Giants are on a short week as they play on Thursday against the 49ers. They are staying in Arizona and will travel from Phoenix to the Bay Area this week. Certainly, we can already consider Barkley questionable at best for Thursday and it wouldn't be surprising if the Giants don't play him.

In the last 10 years, five running backs have been taken in the top 10. Four of the five (Saquon Barkley, Ezekiel Elliott, Leonard Fournette and Todd Gurley) had 229 carries or more in their rookie season. The fifth (Christian McCaffrey) had only 117 carries but added 80 catches. When teams draft backs in the top 10, like Bijan Robinson, they use them a lot.

Related players: Tyler Allgeier, Cordarrelle Patterson

The author went on to say Allgeier will still get plenty of use because the Falcons ran the ball an NFL-high 559 times last year. So even if Robinson carries the ball 250 times, there are still plenty of carries to go around. Patterson’s role is a little bit more of a mystery, the story added. He'll be third on the team in carries, according to the author, but how far back he’s going to be is a question mark. The prediction is Patterson's 144 carries from a year ago could get cut in half this season.

“I mean, I feel like Daniel Jones [has] kind of been counted out the majority of his life,” Saquon Barkley told The Post this week. “He was a walk-on quarterback for Duke, and to get drafted to the New York Giants, everyone thinks he’s not going to be worth a thing, at all. I think he’s silenced all those critics.

“I don’t want to speak for DJ but he’s gonna come in every single day with the same mindset, be the leader that we need. You can see his swagger has grown a little bit more after being involved in the system, understanding the system even better.”

Barkley added everyone will see when the team is playing games. But he did mention a lack of consistency over the past several years going from Pat Shurmur to Joe Judge to Brian Daboll. Barkley added: “You get to be under a system for another year, have all the coaches basically come back, that just helps your confidence grow. When your confidence grows you get that swagger.” Meanwhile, you'll find Jones ranked 10th among our QBs this season. John Paulsen points out Jones was a top-10 fantasy quarterback in 2022 in his first season with Daboll, and that was with an injury-riddled (and suspect) receiving corps. Thus far, the Giants have added an impact tight end (Darren Waller) and re-signed both Sterling Shepard and Darius Slayton.