NFL Trade Rumor: Saquon Barkley to Dallas Cowboys, Urges Analyst
FRISCO - The NFL trade deadline of October 31 is coming. The Dallas Cowboys at 4-2 believe they are on the rise. Saquon Barkley's New York Giants are 1-5 and cannot pretend the same.
Does that mean there can be a trade match that would nudge the Giants into parting ways with their star running back and arguably their best player?
It’s certainly a “sexy” idea and it is being pitched by FS1’s Nick Wright, who is suggesting that the Cowboys should reach out to the Giants and try to grab Barkley.
Saquon and Pollard
Before we fall too deeply and inextricably down the rabbit hole here, a handful of qualifiers: Wright has no known insight into the Cowboys thinking here. Nor, as is so often the case in these made-for-TV trades, is there much time spent on salaries and cap implications,
And when Wright sort of dismisses the presence in Dallas of Tony Pollard by insisting that “You could have both of them on the field at the same time.”?
That’s fun Fantasy Football stuff. For the record … Here's what Wright said on FS1:
"If I were (the Cowboys) I would try to make a dramatic move. I would call up the Giants about Saquon!”
“Dramatic” it would indeed be. … and not only from a Dallas Cowboys perspective. It would mean Dallas finding a way to not only utilize but also pay two $10 million rental running backs. … an unorthodox concept to be sure.
And for the Giants? We’ve taken semi-seriously the idea of the Titans dumping Derrick Henry on the Cowboys, so why is this different?
We find it hard to envision the Giants trading away their best player in Barkley to a hated division rival in the Cowboys.
Barkley's name has been tossed around in trade gossip around the league, causing the star running back to expressed his desire to stay in New York. But as he also said, that decision is “not in his hands.”
But it is within the hands of the Giants. And we lean toward believing that if New York wants to move Saquon, they’ll move him as far away from the NFC East as possible.
