Saquon Barkley has spent more than three months’ time this offseason training at Exos, a private coaching company, at its location in Phoenix.
When Saquon Barkley puts on his track spikes, he draws extra motivation from the nagging thought that he could’ve doubled the yardage on the Giants’ second-biggest gain of the playoffs last season.
“One of the big goals for him is he wanted to get back his speed burst that he felt like he had his rookie year,” said Hill, who has trained Barkley every offseason since he tore his right ACL in 2020. “He feels like he is 100 percent from the knee injury, but there’s still that little bit of another gear that he felt like he was missing.
As Barkley’s agent and the Giants negotiate toward closing the gap on a contract extension, the 26-year-old is training twice a day, six days a week to prepare for his sixth NFL season. “If you are in OTAs, you do everything the team is doing,” Hill said, “whereas I think this has been a really good offseason for him to focus on him because he got to be so specific with his training. When you have an athlete of his caliber, you want to be able to fine-tune a Ferrari.”
“The biggest thing is to make sure his tissue and his body is prepared to run that volume,” Hill said. “I can build him into those numbers so he can step in like he didn’t miss a beat. You are preparing guys for 21 weeks, so you don’t want them to peak in August.” “The angle that maybe a defensive back had on him before won’t be there because he is just bursting. All it takes is a half-step. Week 1, it’s going to look like he is playing faster. He’s starting to match up the veteran side and now you have that rookie-year speed-power-performance layered on top.”
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