There’s a pretty significant difference coming into your first NFL season having been drafted second overall compared with, say, 69th.
If you’re the latter, your name isn’t plastered over back pages, or debated hour after hour on sports radio. No one acts like you hold the fate of the franchise in your hands. And if you’re B.J. Hill who the Giants picked 69th, you don’t necessarily go to the supermarket and see kids wearing your name on their backs.
But when the clock strikes 1 p.m. on Sunday, absolutely none of that will matter. Because whether you’re Saquon Barkley, or B.