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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Saquon Barkley Profile: Not a Top 12 RB? (08/07 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Gibbs breaks down what we should expect from Saquon Barkley in the Giants offense coming off injury. Is he worth a late first round pick or does he have bust written all over him?

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0:00.0

This weekend we're talking about two running backs that you might have a tough time taking in round one.

0:09.4

Sequan Barkley and Jonathan Taylor.

0:11.6

Let's get started.

0:12.7

This is fantasy football today in five.

0:15.9

What's up everybody?

0:17.1

Dave Richard and Jacob Gibbs here.

0:19.2

We're going to talk about Sequin Barkley because he's in the news first. Ian Rappaport from NFL media saying that the Giants expect Seekoine back by week three. Week three, that's terrible. But they're not ruling him out for week one either. They're just going to let him take his time. Jacob, where do you come out on Sequin Barclay in a PPR league? It's going to sound crazy, but I have Sequin Barclay at RB 14. He's barely a top 20 pick

0:44.7

for me right now. And I think that is going to sound, you know, surprising to people. He's

0:49.8

been going on the first round, but I think we're going to see a lot more people kind of move to this

0:54.5

type of a stance over the next couple weeks with this news. I was worried about him before we got

1:00.1

the news. I think people are just kind of drafting Barclay as if it were still 2018, you know,

1:07.6

when he had 121 targets as a rookie. And I think it's going to be really hard

1:12.0

for him to push for even 80 or 90 targets. And that's if he played 16 or 17 games,

1:17.9

not even taken into account that he could miss multiple games to start the year. And the reason

1:22.1

I say that is the Giants just haven't targeted the running back position at a high rate since

1:27.0

Daniel Jones took over

1:28.7

at quarterbacks. One of the metrics that I most frequently reference on here is targets per route

1:34.1

run, which simply just kind of provides a measure of a player's ability to demand targets from

1:38.2

his quarterback when he's on the field running routes. And I think we've got a really

1:43.1

important limous test here with Wayne Galman and New York.

1:48.0

I really was hoping Adam could be on, but I want to hear your insight as well.

1:51.2

But I really would have liked to hear his insider New York Giants take.

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