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The New York Giants will head to Cleveland to scrimmage with and then play the Browns this coming week.
One player who is still in question is star running back Saquon Barkley, who is back on the field practicing after missing 11 months with a knee injury but is still being held out of serious action.
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Barkley did not play on Saturday against the New York Jets and his involvement this week against Cleveland — if any — promises to be minimal.
“We’re going to sit down with the doctors later today and go through that,” head coach Joe Judge said on Sunday. “He responded well last week to the volume and the load. I thought the plan of obviously putting him through a couple of days, backing him off, ramping him back up, so obviously they have a really good feel for his body working with him throughout these last few months through the rehab process. At this point, the focus is really to kind of get him moving more and more within the football movements. In terms of what that’s going to mean for him this week in Cleveland, we’ll have to wait and see.
“I wouldn’t anticipate him being in any kind of live drills this week. As of this point, that would be the plan, but we’ll see where it goes as we go on down further and further when his body is ready for all the football.”
The plan for Barkley is on schedule according to the team but the season is getting closer and closer and fans are getting antsy about whether he is going to be ready for the season opener September 9 against the Denver Broncos.
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