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For Giants, the expectations of Saquon Barkley rise to role model

Pat Shurmur welcomed Saquon Barkley to the team the same way he intends to do so for all of the rookies selected in the draft and signed as free agents in the coming days and weeks.

“I gave him that ‘here’s your locker, here’s your helmet, here’s the field’ speech,” Shurmur said of laying out the basics. “He’s going to get indoctrinated like any rookie and we’re going to treat him like any rookie coming to our organization.”

That may be the case on the field and in the locker room, and the Giants certainly will try their hardest to treat Barkley like everyone else.