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Mike Tomlin Highlights Key Difference To Defending Saquon Barkley Now Compared To 2020

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There’s going to be a lot of Saquon Barkley talk this week, whether from Mike Tomlin or others from the Steelers, and rightfully so. He is one of the premiere players in the league, and has proven himself all over with the Eagles.

On pace to break the single-season rushing record, the Steelers are now charged with slowing him down. And Tomlin knows that’s no easy task, coming as someone who has planned against him before. Why? Because the Saquon Barkley of the New York Giants is not the Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles.

“You couple his talents with a bunch of talent around him where you can’t focus on him, then he’s really just gonna explode”, Tomlin said of Barkley on the Pat McAfee Show.