Stock up: Julian Love

Love hadn’t seen much playing time during his rookie season, but the Giants had seen enough of the struggles in the secondary, especially with DeAndre Baker and Antoine Bethea, so Love got his chance to play a lot more.

Love made the Giants look good on the opportunity given to him with a strong performance, making key plays to prevent at least two Bears touchdowns.

Love also had the first interception of his career, picking off a pass from Mitchell Trubisky. Love clearly made his case on Sunday that he deserves to be a starter and to get a lot more playing time in the secondary.

Stock down: Saquon Barkley

It’s very rare to find Barkley on this side of the list, but it’s very clear that Barkley hasn’t been the same player since returning from injury.

Whether he’s still hurting or not is unclear, but Barkley doesn’t look the same. Granted, he did better than the one-yard rushing performance he had two weeks ago against the New York Jets, gaining 59 yards on 17 carries.

Barkley had a costly drop in the game in which, if he hauls in the pass, it’s a likely touchdown for the Giants.

All in all, Barkley hasn’t looked like the same player we all saw early on in the season, and you really have to wonder if he’s concealing some sort of injury.

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