Giants running back Saquon Barkley at MetLife Stadium on Nov. 10, 2019. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Saquon Barkley wrote a note to himself on Wednesday.
He was in a meeting, jotting down some of the things he was seeing and discussing with teammates, when a thought crossed his mind. He scribbled it quickly at the top of the page.
The great ones figure it out.
"I want to be great,” Barkley said of that message, “and I’m going to figure it out.”
This season, the solution has been a bit elusive. A cornucopia of elements have converged to derail his second NFL campaign.