The numbers are the numbers and the player is the player.

The Giants know the numbers and that they are down. They also know the player and recognize that it is probably impossible to keep Saquon Barkley down for too long.

“You don’t want to be the team that lets him get hot,’’ nose tackle Dexter Lawrence II said Tuesday.

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After erupting with a volcanic intensity last season, Barkley is merely smoldering in 2025. The Eagles are 4-1, coming off their first loss, during which Barkley was strangely uninvolved with a season-low six rushing attempts and uncharacteristically unproductive with a season-low 30 yards.

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