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Giants RB Saquon Barkley sprinting, cutting in workout video

By Zac Wassink | Last updated 6/22/21

New York Giants star running back Saquon Barkley continues to recover from the torn ACL he suffered on Sept. 20 of last year and has given fans a brief glimpse of the process.

On Tuesday, Barkley shared via his Instagram story videos of him completing drills, catching passes, making sprints and cutting on a field:

COMEBACK SZN.

Sundays are better with a healthy @saquon

(h/t @JordanRaanan)pic.twitter.com/y3XE9fqNHE
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) June 22, 2021

Reports surfaced in April that Barkley was on track to be in the starting lineup for Week 1 of the upcoming season, but the 24-year-old suggested earlier this month there is no rush to have him face opposing defenses until he's 100% recovered from this setback.

"It's going to be whenever my body tells me I'm ready or I'm able to show everyone I'm ready again," Barkley explained at that time. "That's when I'm going to be able to go out there and hopefully be elite, what I was before but even better."

For a piece published June 9, Jordan Raanan of ESPN noted the Giants could keep Barkley out of live game situations "until October" depending on his status through the end of the preseason. One assumes Big Blue won't have Barkley take many, if any, risks during meaningless exhibition August contests.

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