On any other Monday, amid any other season, this news would have eviscerated the franchise.
And yes, it’s still a gut-punch for the Giants that running back Saquon Barkley will reportedly miss at least a month—and likely more than that—with a high ankle sprain. It is not, however, the toll of irrelevance ringing again, signaling an endless fall without the team’s most dynamic player.
Daniel Jones’s emergence does not mitigate the loss of the best running back in the league. Not even close. What his strong performance against Tampa Bay on Sunday does do is keep the franchise on an upward trajectory.