Saquon Barkley is learning to be a more assertive leader as he enters his second NFL season.
“I’ve definitely asserted myself in more of a leadership role,” Barkley said Friday. “When I was younger, I would say high school and college, I was a guy that would just come in and work and lead by example,” he said. “And you have to do that, you have to lead by example and show what you’re able to do, but you have to be vocal. That’s where I had to get a little more comfortable, I guess you could say, from last year to this year.