The New York Giants remain in Arizona ahead of Wednesday’s travel day to San Francisco, where they’ll take on the 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in Week 4.
Entering the day, expectations were that running back Saquon Barkley, who suffered an “ordinary” ankle sprain last Sunday against the Cardinals, would be forced to sit this one out. However, Giants head coach Brian Daboll is suggesting we pump the brakes on that assumption.
“I’m not saying that he’s out yet. He’s a quick healer,” Daboll told reporters during a Zoom call. “We’re going to take it all the way up to Thursday with him.
“He feels a lot better today. I just talked to him. We’ll see where we’re at.”
Daboll added that Barkley has made “considerable progress” over the past 24 hours.
Whether or not that is pure gamesmanship on the part of Daboll is unclear but Barkley does return from injury quicker than the average NFL player. And given that it wasn’t a high-ankle sprain, it would be possible for him to beat the three-week window.
Meanwhile, the Giants conducted their second walkthrough on Tuesday.
The Giants’ (projected) Tuesday injury report can be found below:
Did not participate: RB Saquon Barkley (ankle), OL Ben Bredeson (concussion)
Limited participant: LB Micah McFadden (neck), LB Azeez Ojulari (hamstring), WR Wan’Dale Robinson (knee), OL Andrew Thomas (hamstring)
Full participant: N/A
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